Example sentences of "to [noun] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 2 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
| 3 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 5 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 6 | Jane is convinced that this refusal to unburden herself to friends led to increased frustrations for her mother . |
| 7 | GEC is refurbishing 10 clean rooms at a cost of £7m , as the company bids to catapult itself to the forefront of GaAs wafer technology alongside US and Japanese rivals . |
| 8 | It 's a kind of exam — and it 's important to school yourself to be good at exams . |