Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My mother was the sort of person who regards talking to yourself as the first sign of madness . |
| 6 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 7 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 8 | Then , on a sunny day in April , when the bees were visiting the hedgerows and the robins were flying back and forth with their beaks full of moss and feathers , she came down from Roscarrock Hall humming to herself without a serious thought in her head — when suddenly , as she rounded a corner , there was Tristram , his face sun-tanned , his shirt open and his dark brown hair thick and tangled round his face . |
| 9 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |