Example sentences of "[verb] to himself at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | The elder Blackwell 's religious commitment was at least as strong as his son 's ; he seems to have died in some poverty , having previously calculated the debts owing to himself at nearly £36,000 ( Bodleian MS Rawl . |
| 4 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 5 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 6 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 7 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 8 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 9 | Corbett watched them go and smiled to himself at what he had learnt . |
| 10 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 11 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 12 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
| 13 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |