Example sentences of "to yourself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sing a lot in a silence , just sing to yourself without anything to cover it up . |
| 2 | Note that you can not submit a package to yourself for approval . |
| 3 | Note , you can not submit a package to yourself for approval . |
| 4 | As it is , you 've already had her to yourself for too long during my regrettable but unavoidable absence . |
| 5 | In fact you sound as if you 've hardly a minute to yourself between looking after the grandchildren and caring for your husband . |
| 6 | When you 're criticised by others , there can be great solace in thinking quietly to yourself about the flip side of the description . |
| 7 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 8 | entirely up to yourself to actually make provision to erm increase you know your own pension . |
| 9 | You 're going to be happiest closer to home now , Cancer and you 'll need time to yourself at the beginning of June . |
| 10 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 11 | Have you ever listened to yourself on a tape-recorder ? |
| 12 | It 's no good whispering them to yourself on the top deck of an otherwise empty bus , you 've got to shout them in school halls , fields , front rooms of houses , from your bedroom window … anywhere , really . |
| 13 | My mother was the sort of person who regards talking to yourself as the first sign of madness . |
| 14 | When referring to yourself as the writer , it is possible to use a range of forms : " I " , " we " , " one " , " the present author " , etc . |
| 15 | * Do n't refer to yourself as " one " or " we " ; use " I " only when you want to introduce a special , personal note ( see p. 86 ) . |
| 16 | It used to be a tremendous transition from 1 April when you realised you would n't have the garden to yourself until quite suddenly at the end of October when everybody goes . |
| 17 | And like , you always think to yourself like you always think to yourself , yeah , you know I would tell someone and if it 's what you would |
| 18 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 19 | At this time of year , mid-Autumn , the snow has usually not arrived in Tromsø and it is possible for you to have the hills to yourself in Tromsdalen or , better , in Lyngen , but this year there was already a metre of the stuff down at sea level . |
| 20 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 21 | You are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way — hello ? |
| 22 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 23 | When someone gives you some information , try to repeat it to yourself in the same way it was given to you . |
| 24 | It was Mike Nichols 's point of view that you should always be close to yourself in the most personal way to convey not only truth but humour . |
| 25 | ( If you are reluctant to commit yourself to paper , speak to yourself in a mirror . ) |
| 26 | No matter how many people you see , I think it 's all down to yourself in the end . |
| 27 | Be kind to yourself in judging your first attempts at answering exam questions under a time constraint . |
| 28 | There is also , in the fabric of the study method , the personal communication from you to yourself in the form of notes . |
| 29 | You become very real to yourself in a strange way . |
| 30 | But , in carrying out the scan technique , you will need to define each attitude to yourself in rather more detail . |