Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 | Beside her , Alan Markby was grinning to himself as if he knew what she was thinking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 10 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 11 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 12 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 15 | Inspired by this success , Sylvestra embarked on more which grew into an exhibition ‘ including one commissioned by Julian Glover of him and his dresser — a colourful character known as Black Mac , and one of David Bradley talking to himself as Justice Shallow in Henry IV Part 2 . |
| 16 | a strangely good baby , always laughing and talking to himself in his own fashion , kicking in his pram , talking to the trees . |
| 17 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
| 18 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He did so smiling to himself in rapture at his achievement . |
| 21 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |