Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 2 | We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . " |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd prefer to keep our secret to ourselves for a bit , ’ Adam said firmly . |
| 4 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 5 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 8 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Apparently acting in protest at the economic blockade , a 52-year-old Lithuanian factory worker , Stanislovas Zhamaitis , committed suicide by setting fire to himself outside the Bolshoi Theatre in the centre of Moscow on April 26 . |
| 12 | A man has set fire to himself outside the Houses of Parliament in protest at the Bosnian situation . |
| 13 | Mr Chittenden set fire to himself outside the United Friendly offices in Clemence House , Werburgh Street , Chester , where his ex-girlfriend works . |
| 14 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 17 | Huy decided to keep what he had learnt about Iritnefert to himself for the moment . |
| 18 | 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 — |
| 19 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 20 | He kept himself to himself as a rule , except for meals : attended what lectures he chose , and cut the rest . |
| 21 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 28 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |