Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wistfully , Jaq quoted to himself the words of an ancient leader of the middle kingdom on bygone Earth : ‘ In the land of a thousand million people , what does the death of one million of these count in the cause of purity ? ’ |
| 2 | The pope applied to himself the words of Christ , ‘ He that heareth you heareth me ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ He was highly strung , easily depressed , ’ he said , ‘ but used to go round the theatre chanting to himself the words — which I believe he learned from Frank Finlay , who played his father in the play — ’ I must be resilient , resilient ! ’ |
| 4 | Being vain , however , and temperamentally unable to reject outright any of his earlier pronouncements , he could not admit , to the world or to himself the contradictions in which Schopenhauer involved him . |
| 5 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 6 | It is essential for quantum theory that it should be able to annex to itself the triumphs of its predecessor . |
| 7 | She had meant to be comforting , but even to herself the words sounded depressed . |
| 8 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 9 | I remember again sitting in the airline office in Lima , chanting to myself the lines of Elizabeth Bishop , ‘ The art of losing is n't hard to master ’ , and tapping my shoulder-bag , thinking , this is the important one . |
| 10 | He told himself : I 'll have to be more careful ; have to keep to myself the things Miriam divulges about her husband 's past . |
| 11 | And haunches of venison that was the best part in the they would be sent away to themselves the haunches . |
| 12 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 13 | It was thought desirable to hedge it about with safeguards that would prevent the representatives from arrogating to themselves the powers and authority that properly belonged to the people . |