Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 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 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 4 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 5 | This action was very strange because Andries not only attracted a lot of attention to himself by the manner of his purchase but also the dinghy had a serial number on it which made it instantly traceable . |
| 6 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 7 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 8 | If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial . |
| 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 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 12 | It 's a position that 's only too familiar to myself as an ex-member of the Camel Laird workforce . |
| 13 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 16 | This way she can guarantee her customers that they will have all the surrounding thousands of acres of bush totally to themselves for the duration of their stay . |
| 17 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 18 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 19 | You 're going to be happiest closer to home now , Cancer and you 'll need time to yourself at the beginning of June . |
| 20 | There is also , in the fabric of the study method , the personal communication from you to yourself in the form of notes . |
| 21 | 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 |