Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paisley had based his assertion about the danger to himself on a warning from inside the security forces and this fact meant that he could not establish the credibility of it by revealing the source of his information . |
| 2 | The " subject of knowledge " , it is argued , should turn his attention to himself as a historical individual , and explore the essential aspects of his own manner-to-be . |
| 3 | You wo n't have to live with the car that draws attention to itself with a banshee wail every time you floor it in 2nd . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Always insists on a room to herself with a lock on the door . ’ |
| 6 | ft store by the Newcastle developer 's City and Northern Ltd. at Hill heads Industrial Estate , and the local authority 's grant of planning permission to itself for a superstore at Red House Farm , both in Whitley Bay . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd prefer to keep our secret to ourselves for a bit , ’ Adam said firmly . |
| 8 | She clutched the warm , glowing vision to herself like a hot-water bottle to keep out the cold and loneliness of the night . |
| 9 | He justified his secrecy to himself as a necessary precaution , but , lying somewhat deeper , there was a wish to preserve the intimacy of the link with Heather that they represented , a desire to conceal both his possession of them and his pursuit of what they meant . |
| 10 | When Nails had the refrigerator factory to himself on a warm summer evening he felt amazingly content . |
| 11 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 12 | A MAN was in hospital yesterday suffering from serious burns after setting fire to himself in a London immigration office , the Home Office said . |
| 13 | Mr Jamaitis had set fire to himself in a Moscow square . |