Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pn reflx] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 2 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 3 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 4 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 5 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 6 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 7 | We do n't quite know what to do with ourselves at the moment . |
| 8 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 9 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 10 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 11 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 12 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 13 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 14 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |
| 15 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 16 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 17 | Smiling to herself at the thought , and confident that it was now too late to be interrupted further , Alexandra went upstairs . |
| 18 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |