Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 3 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 4 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 5 | For a moment she had lain stunned , then had vowed to herself she would be out and away by the next morning . |
| 6 | It was rather a good device and one which Fenella admitted to herself she would not thought that Caspar capable of thinking up so quickly . |
| 7 | He thought the worst of Mitch and clearly thought that left to herself she would ring London at once . |
| 8 | Within a healthy tradition of Goddess-worship , there is assigned to the Goddess an ambivalence , a sense that left to herself she will be destructive rather than nurturing . |
| 9 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 10 | I thought to myself you can do the cookers , I 'm not shifting it . |
| 11 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 12 | Left to myself I might have tried to persuade , to plead , to wheedle , to say how nice it was going to be at home . |
| 13 | ‘ But to myself I 'll call myself John , ’ he whispered to the mirror . |
| 14 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 15 | I say it should be a nice evening , and I think to myself I may need all that wine . |
| 16 | ‘ That one scene took up a whole morning and I did think to myself I could have written half a script in that time . |
| 17 | Your insults to myself I can stomach ; those you choose to demean an innocent young girl with are quite another thing . |
| 18 | then again think what , what the hell is she gon na do with him and yet I keep saying to myself I should n't do it and then another bit of me saying why should n't I do it , why should n't I have |
| 19 | Left to myself I 'd leave it there two maybe three days , pick up an envelope now and then and try to guess who sent it . |
| 20 | I said to myself I will not vote for the Conservative party again . |
| 21 | Left to themselves they will appropriate biotechnology as and when they need to . |
| 22 | to yourself I 'll do better next time and I 'll do better next time and it 's , it 's all the time I must try harder next time ! |
| 23 | To be fair to yourself you should be certain that you are bringing in as much money as you should . |