Home & living
have somewhere to yourself
be alone in a place
To be in a place without other people using or sharing it.
Hear it in real life
Why are you staying late at work?
I want to have the office to myself.
We had the beach to ourselves that morning, so we could swim in peace.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I had the house for myself all weekend.
Say: I had the house to myself all weekend.
Use to myself to mean that nobody else was using or sharing the house.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
have somewhere to yourself; have the house to yourself; have the room to yourself
Your turn: say it out loud
We had the beach to ourselves that morning, so we could swim in peace.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
have somewhere to yourself
be alone in a place
“We had the beach to ourselves that morning, so we could swim in peace.”
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