Example sentences of "to herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 2 | She refers to herself as a ‘ household technician ’ , ’ Laura snorted grimly . |
| 3 | She had justified her behaviour to herself on the basis that the police would have been much slower and more painstaking . |
| 4 | Always insists on a room to herself with a lock on the door . ’ |
| 5 | I wonder , she said to herself with a sudden lurch of her heart , I wonder if I 'm embarking on something I shall not be able to stop ? |
| 6 | Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account . |
| 7 | Hector whined his impatience , bringing Theda back to herself with a start . |
| 8 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 9 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 10 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 11 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 12 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 13 | Smiling to herself at the thought , and confident that it was now too late to be interrupted further , Alexandra went upstairs . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied . |
| 16 | Her father 's belief that people made their own luck was true , Cora-Beth thought , when by lunchtime the following day Harry had finished his business with the architect and her ruse to have him to herself for a few hours paid off . |
| 17 | She needed to keep it all to herself for a few hours — hours in which she could live that precious time over and over again , recall his kisses , his voice and , above all , the look in his eyes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 20 | The top was of gleaming steel which Mrs Curdle rubbed up daily with emery paper , hissing gently to herself like a groom to a horse , as her busy hand slid back and forth across the satin of the surface . |
| 21 | She sounded to herself like a working-class heroine of a '50s black-and-white film , one of those who suddenly , to the bafflement of steady spouses sometimes played by people like Max Bygraves , and to the consternation of concerned mothers , frantically and uncontrollably asserts her rights . |
| 22 | She clutched the warm , glowing vision to herself like a hot-water bottle to keep out the cold and loneliness of the night . |
| 23 | Dorothea gathered her wits , calm and reassuring even to herself in a crisis . |
| 24 | Anna looked at Peter again and said to herself in a guilty whisper , ‘ Will he become even more difficult ? ’ |
| 25 | Damn Julius ! she muttered to herself in a great surge of resentment . |
| 26 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 27 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |