Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 2 | But , in carrying out the scan technique , you will need to define each attitude to yourself in rather more detail . |
| 3 | And the German emperors , the successors of Charlemagne , saw the advantages of Roman law to themselves in spreading their control . |
| 4 | But taxpayers can improve the benefit of their subscription at no extra cost to themselves by making a covenant . |
| 5 | It 's the first time Bentley has had an all-new shape to itself for almost two generations — since 1952 , in fact , when the first of the R-type Continentals was launched in limited numbers and initially for export only . |
| 6 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 7 | All the men on the camp were housed in brick built barrack blocks , and J. even had a little room to himself with a radiator . |
| 8 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 9 | If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial . |
| 10 | If a firm raises 1 million from issuing a bond with a coupon of 10 per cent , it makes annual interest payments of 100,000 at a net cost to itself of 65,000 per annum ( i.e. 100,000 ( 1 -0.35 ) ) . |
| 11 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 12 | During and following the Gorbachev era there were numerous complaints about the tendency of presidents to arrogate more power to themselves on the grounds that it was a temporary measure to deal with the extremely serious economic and social situation facing the republics . |
| 13 | They make a permanent and pleasurable addition to ourselves as individuals . |
| 14 | We children had a table to one side to ourselves on which were laid out bottles of pop , cakes , buns and bread and jam . |
| 15 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 16 | I have made one promise to myself about this book . |
| 17 | It is perhaps arguable , though , that we should recognize structures based on assignment of equation where the two intensional elements are properties ; thus a sentence such as small is beautiful might be represented as : ( 36 ) small is beautiful On the other hand , it may be that the human mind only represents such an equational assignment to itself by first making an entity-concept out of the ideas on each side . |
| 18 | But at busy occasions such as haytime , they did n't get any time to themselves at all . |
| 19 | As with the Scarborough grant , Gloucester was surrendering land of little value to himself in return for a significant acquisition . |
| 20 | As with the Scarborough grant , Gloucester was surrendering land of little value to himself in return for a significant acquisition . |
| 21 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |
| 22 | ‘ Stealin' Horses ’ pops out of nowhere and hangs in the air , a skeletal ballad from Griffin with the accompaniment of a ghostly piano which can be heard weeping softy to itself in the basement . |
| 23 | She clutched the warm , glowing vision to herself like a hot-water bottle to keep out the cold and loneliness of the night . |