Example sentences of "to myself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
2 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
3 | It 's a position that 's only too familiar to myself as an ex-member of the Camel Laird workforce . |
4 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
5 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
8 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
9 | Also my teaching is squeezed into 4 days , which means that I have time to myself at the weekend , including Friday . |
10 | I said to myself with a secret smile . ) |
11 | I think I 'll keep it to myself for a while . |
12 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
13 | ‘ Besides , if we hurry home , I can have you all to myself for a while before they come . ’ |
14 | ‘ But I 'm talking too much — it 's having you all to myself for the first time . ’ |
15 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
16 | An hour to myself without the children on Sunday |
17 | I used the word happy , repeating it to myself through the streets . |
18 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
19 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
20 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
21 | With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave . |
22 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
23 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
24 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
25 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |