Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had the field to ourselves for 14 years , and went through the peak of the market in 1989–90 . |
| 2 | Ultimately , I believe that er , the best interest is leave it to ourselves by that particular process , and with that Chairman , I wish to conclude . |
| 3 | If we think those ancient people were silly , we should look to ourselves in modern times . |
| 4 | ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’ |
| 5 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 6 | The evidence indicates an immediate confirmation of Mercian overlordship in the territory of the Hwicce , when at the beginning of his reign Offa defined the relationship of Eanberht and his brothers , Uhtred and Ealdred , rulers of the Hwicce , to himself as that of reguli , kinglets ( CS 183 : S 55 ; CS 107 : S 56 ) , but Offa 's position may have been more secure here than elsewhere . |
| 7 | He memorized pages of it just because he loved it and often recited his favourite bits to himself on those inevitable odd moments of waiting about in queues and so on . |
| 8 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 9 | After a spring and summer during which he was so busy with his ordinary duties that he had no time to himself at all — not even his evenings — he returned again to America in the late autumn of 1950 . |
| 10 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 11 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |
| 12 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 13 | He stood flexing the body he had preserved to himself by hard exercise and the austere living that wore so deceptive a cloak of luxury . |
| 14 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 15 | He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth . |
| 16 | Even though the subject matter may be such that it is difficult to come to rapid conclusions by , say , an objective test , the question should still be asked so that the teacher can explain to himself in all honesty what he is about . |
| 17 | Edouard defined his work to himself in two stages : first , he would restore ; then he would build and expand . |
| 18 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 19 | The court said that the conclusion the arbitrator had come to could only have been reached by in effect giving evidence to himself in flat contradiction to the evidence given by the applicants ' expert witness , and the arbitrator was guilty of misconduct in failing to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 20 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 21 | Parallel importing : where articles have been put into circulation by or with the consent of the right owner , he can not use his rights to prevent the subsequent import into another EC country even though he may be selling those articles to himself in that other country . |
| 22 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 23 | And , Father , be it admitted , he had done much to raise up enemies to himself in this house . ’ |
| 24 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 25 | The basic premiss , usually , is that whatever exists in a fundamental sense does not depend upon anything external to itself for own existence and is in every way self-sufficient , which is regarded as analytically true . |
| 26 | Another effect of intrinsic curvature is revealed when a vector is transported round a closed path in such a way that it is moved parallel to itself at each step of the journey . |
| 27 | If a firm raises 1 million from issuing a bond with a coupon of 10 per cent , it makes annual interest payments of 100,000 at a net cost to itself of 65,000 per annum ( i.e. 100,000 ( 1 -0.35 ) ) . |
| 28 | It is simply an element in what , in its totality , is seen as the drama of the self-determined unfolding and return to itself of Absolute Mind . |
| 29 | His only strategy is to take small steps and to carry the local vector parallel to itself over each step . |
| 30 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |