Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . " |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd prefer to keep our secret to ourselves for a bit , ’ Adam said firmly . |
| 3 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 4 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 5 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 6 | Another chap , he 's a big name in a church in Buckley he was a an old neighbour of ours and I never liked cos he used to himself with a bowler hat on they are only back twenty years , you know , bowler hats ! |
| 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 blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 9 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 10 | Nigel did n't appear to notice her lack of ardour , but went blithely on about having the house to himself for the weekend , so there was going to be a party , and he 'd come and fetch her — |
| 11 | Huy decided to keep what he had learnt about Iritnefert to himself for the moment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He kept himself to himself as a rule , except for meals : attended what lectures he chose , and cut the rest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 22 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 23 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 24 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 25 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 28 | In discussion of the proposal to Islamicize Libyan law , both old and young took their turn at the microphone , the older men serious , sometimes passionate , arguing both sides : they set their approval of particular measures — the prohibition of alcohol , for example — against their fear of further state interference in religious affairs , derived from unstated resentment of Qaddafi 's arrogation to himself of the power to determine what Islam might be . |
| 29 | But the T'ang had kept his thoughts to himself about the killing . |
| 30 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |