Example sentences of "to myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
3 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
6 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
7 | Also my teaching is squeezed into 4 days , which means that I have time to myself at the weekend , including Friday . |
8 | ‘ But I 'm talking too much — it 's having you all to myself for the first time . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | An hour to myself without the children on Sunday |
11 | I used the word happy , repeating it to myself through the streets . |
12 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
13 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
14 | 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 . |