Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made visible to ourselves the complex , multiplicity of our identities . |
| 2 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 3 | In Ellis v. John Stenning & Son A sold land to B , reserving to himself the right to cut and sell the uncut timber on the land . |
| 4 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 5 | Why does he arrogate to himself the claim to know more about patient care than all those professionals ? |
| 6 | If left to itself the road would disappear in three months . |
| 7 | But left to itself the butterfly slowly adapts to its new shape . |
| 8 | In 1265 the papacy had reserved to itself the right to provide candidates to a wide variety of livings in the gift of ecclesiastical patrons and to bishoprics vacated at Rome . |
| 9 | takes to itself the sunset 's sweet sauterne |
| 10 | ‘ … left to itself the market will function in such a way as to cause great harm to the interests of young people , companies and taxpayers alike . ’ |
| 11 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 12 | From the eighth century onwards , the Church arrogated to itself the power to create kings . |
| 13 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 14 | Sophie nodded , keeping to herself the thought that George was expounding a powerful argument against the keeping of animals in zoos . |
| 15 | She would keep to herself the colour of her days — white Mondays , bordered in yellow , mahogany-brown Sundays . |
| 16 | Lovingly , as if repeating one of the poems she had learnt as a girl , and never forgotten , she crooned to herself the doctor 's words , ‘ Nothing to worry about , Mrs Mallory . |
| 17 | The intricate and ever-growing industrial co-operation of the civilised nations through trade does not permit any nation to keep to herself the gain of any market she may hold . |
| 18 | Had already admitted to herself the extent of her own love for him . |
| 19 | I put to myself the question : ‘ How then , does it come right ? ’ |
| 20 | I often please myself with anticipations of our return , picture to myself the joy and greetings when we meet , and I try to fancy the appearance of the dear children — they will be grown out of all knowledge . ’ |
| 21 | In the eighteenth century this undifferentiated mass nobility had tended to contract , and it was the lower ranges of this class who , as ennobled civil servants , collected to themselves the influence lost by the great court aristocracy . |
| 22 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 23 | When the Minister replied in Committee to our amendments and proposed new clauses , he said — as he has tended to say throughout the passage of the Bill — that the Government can take to themselves the power to give certain safeguards . |
| 24 | It says it is impossible to new the ma , renew them again to repentance , since they again crucify to themselves the son of God and to put him to open shame . |
| 25 | The faithful elucidated the mysteries of Indirect Rule with the theological rapture of early Christians disclosing to themselves the nature of the Trinity . |
| 26 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 27 | Name to yourself the climax , so you know what you are writing towards . |
| 28 | Picture to yourself the embarrassment of His Grace the Archbishop at hearing the opera praised by the whole family of the Elector and by all the nobles , and at receiving the enthusiastic congratulations which they all expressed to him . |
| 29 | To do as you are doing , to take to yourself the right to decide who shall and who shall not be born , is to set yourself up above God — ’ |