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单词 to have to oneself
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to have (something or someone) to oneself
c. to have (something or someone) to oneself: to be able to enjoy, use, or occupy (a thing) without having to share it with anyone else; to have (a person's) undivided attention.
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1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxxiii The Other Cock had a Good Riddance of his Rival..and had All his Mistresses to Himself again.
1773 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 15 Dec. in Jrnl. & Lett. 1773–4 (1957) 31 I have to myself in the Evening..my Liberty, either to continue in the school room..or to sit over at the great House.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) i. 28 If I could hamper him with this girl, I should have the field to myself.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xii. 108 Toots, as an old hand, had a desk to himself.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 30 Your uncle thought I ought to have you to myself in the first hour or two.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxix. 306 I had the road all to myself.
1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xii. 94 You can have the nursery bathroom all to yourself.
1955 A. Atkinson Exit Charlie (1957) iv. 103 She wanted him to herself: she was sick and tired of watching him play fast and loose with programme-girls.
2001 J. O'Brien At Home in Heart of Appalachia xiv. 253 The weather will keep the dandified hunters in bed, and he will have the woods to himself.
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