Example sentences of "to herself [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 2 | I wonder , she said to herself with a sudden lurch of her heart , I wonder if I 'm embarking on something I shall not be able to stop ? |
| 3 | Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account . |
| 4 | Then , on a sunny day in April , when the bees were visiting the hedgerows and the robins were flying back and forth with their beaks full of moss and feathers , she came down from Roscarrock Hall humming to herself without a serious thought in her head — when suddenly , as she rounded a corner , there was Tristram , his face sun-tanned , his shirt open and his dark brown hair thick and tangled round his face . |
| 5 | She sounded to herself like a working-class heroine of a '50s black-and-white film , one of those who suddenly , to the bafflement of steady spouses sometimes played by people like Max Bygraves , and to the consternation of concerned mothers , frantically and uncontrollably asserts her rights . |
| 6 | She clutched the warm , glowing vision to herself like a hot-water bottle to keep out the cold and loneliness of the night . |
| 7 | Anna looked at Peter again and said to herself in a guilty whisper , ‘ Will he become even more difficult ? ’ |
| 8 | Damn Julius ! she muttered to herself in a great surge of resentment . |