Example sentences of "[verb] to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [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 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 6 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 7 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 8 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |
| 9 | We pray for men and women in lands where there is hatred of one group for another , that their hearts may be turned to yourself in the search for righteousness and truth . |
| 10 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 11 | ( If you are reluctant to commit yourself to paper , speak to yourself in a mirror . ) |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 13 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 14 | We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . " |
| 15 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 16 | The contemplation on the Godhead is an explanation of the Trinity as God , the original creative power , who enjoys the goodness of company in the Son whose wisdom is bound to himself by the love which is the Holy Ghost . |
| 17 | There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung . |
| 18 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 19 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 20 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |
| 21 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 22 | Her shriek awakened the house , and Coleridge , who had been asleep when his father returned , knew at once what it signified , saying to himself in the darkness , ‘ Papa is dead . ’ |
| 23 | The baby was lying in a cradle of osiers , crooning to itself like a wood-pigeon . |
| 24 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 25 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 26 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 27 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 28 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 29 | Experts say an analysis of the figures shows women are more likely than men to lie to themselves about the amount they drink . |
| 30 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |