Example sentences of "[verb] to itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 2 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 3 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 4 | There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung . |
| 5 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |