Example sentences of "[verb] to himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 6 | He mockingly referred to himself as Sir Tone and said : ‘ My wife is much more thrilled about it than I am . |
| 7 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 8 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 9 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
| 10 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 11 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 12 | As he waited for delivery , he started to mutter to himself in what sounded like a Gloucestershire accent . |
| 13 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 14 | Beside her , Alan Markby was grinning to himself as if he knew what she was thinking . |
| 15 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 18 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 19 | He stood flexing the body he had preserved to himself by hard exercise and the austere living that wore so deceptive a cloak of luxury . |
| 20 | Manville nodded to himself with satisfaction . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the Gospel , too , Jesus alludes to himself as Paraclete : for when promising ‘ another paraclete ’ or ‘ another as paraclete ’ in 14:16 ( it makes no difference which way you take the Greek ) Jesus is dearly insisting that he is their Paraclete already , just as the Epistle says he is . |
| 23 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 24 | Denis cursed to himself for his indiscretion . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 27 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 28 | Then he would remember his own beloved homesite , and whisper to himself of its dour moorland and rough sea coast , and the winds and the rain that did battle with an eagle 's wings . |
| 29 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |