Example sentences of "to himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Beside her , Alan Markby was grinning to himself as if he knew what she was thinking . |
| 32 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 33 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 34 | By their preaching and writing , the apostles showed that they had finally grasped Jesus ' point that the Bible 's main practical purpose is to draw people to himself as their Saviour . |
| 35 | However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta 's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels . |
| 36 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 37 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The evidence indicates an immediate confirmation of Mercian overlordship in the territory of the Hwicce , when at the beginning of his reign Offa defined the relationship of Eanberht and his brothers , Uhtred and Ealdred , rulers of the Hwicce , to himself as that of reguli , kinglets ( CS 183 : S 55 ; CS 107 : S 56 ) , but Offa 's position may have been more secure here than elsewhere . |
| 40 | In the Gospel , too , Jesus alludes to himself as Paraclete : for when promising ‘ another paraclete ’ or ‘ another as paraclete ’ in 14:16 ( it makes no difference which way you take the Greek ) Jesus is dearly insisting that he is their Paraclete already , just as the Epistle says he is . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 43 | For instance , someone who acts out neurotic conflicts by committing crimes like theft or robbery may be able to represent these activities even to himself as a response to material need rather than unconscious compulsion . |
| 44 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 45 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 46 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 47 | When Nails had the refrigerator factory to himself on a warm summer evening he felt amazingly content . |
| 48 | He memorized pages of it just because he loved it and often recited his favourite bits to himself on those inevitable odd moments of waiting about in queues and so on . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | On 1 March 1989 , a group of British skiers were horrified to see a man set fire to himself on the ski-slopes outside Braşov . |
| 51 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 52 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 53 | 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 ? |
| 54 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
| 55 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 56 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |
| 57 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 60 | Corbett watched them go and smiled to himself at what he had learnt . |