Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 3 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 4 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 7 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 8 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 9 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 10 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 11 | Wexford chuckled to himself in the car . |