Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 6 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 7 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 8 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 9 | The key to being naturally beautiful is looking after yourself on the inside as well as the outside and that means eating healthily . |
| 10 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |
| 11 | I 'd feel guilty if I started looking on myself as a victim . ’ |
| 12 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 13 | Critics of the concept suggest that Yuppies are the figment of the imagination of media , agency and marketing people , looking at themselves in a mirror in their expensive homes in the capital city . |
| 14 | No , Kathleen thought , looking at herself in the mirror , at her own , pale face , no , she is not afraid , that is not it , Isabel has never known fear . |
| 15 | Looking at herself in the mirror she saw that her eyes were swollen and her face blotchy . |
| 16 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 17 | Looking at herself in the mirror , she was very satisfied . |
| 18 | She combed her hair , looking at herself in the mirror . |
| 19 | Looking at herself in the looking-glass on the stairs she saw how small and pink her eyes looked , their lids still puffy and her skin was tired and lifeless . |
| 20 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 21 | There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The baby was lying in a cradle of osiers , crooning to itself like a wood-pigeon . |
| 24 | Staring at myself in the mirror . |
| 25 | I flush the lot down the toilet , staring at myself in the mirror , trembling . |
| 26 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 27 | Sprawled over them were two more eunuchs ; one was staring at herself in a mirror , applying lipstick , the other was combing her hair . |
| 28 | And she 's sitting in a peculiar way , staring at herself in the mirror . ’ |
| 29 | Dawn Allenby was standing in her coat and headscarf staring at herself in the mirror . |
| 30 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |