Example sentences of "[adv] to [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wafer thin translucent something undulated through the air towards her , chuckling gently to itself in a liquid voice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 4 | No matter how many people you see , I think it 's all down to yourself in the end . |
| 5 | It was Geordie , he was muttering out loud to himself in his strong Geordie accent . |
| 6 | had all to itself with eyes like black pods |
| 7 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 8 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 9 | There were only the crickets shrilling away to themselves in the bushes . |
| 10 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 11 | Sometimes he talks in a foreign language — you know , just to himself like . |
| 12 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 13 | The night before , these three had blended together as if it was the easiest thing in the world , forming a new , three-headed animal talking comfortably to itself through Francie 's hands and Aunt Margaret 's lips and fingers and Finn 's feet . |
| 14 | Holden seemed particularly nervous , repeating his lines over and over to himself like a raw newcomer terribly afraid he might forget how to deliver when the time came . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The only other occupants of Carewscourt were the cook , Mrs Joyce , and two maid-servants , and they kept strictly to themselves below stairs . |
| 17 | This maxim Martha repeated fervently to herself during her first week at school . |
| 18 | entirely up to yourself to actually make provision to erm increase you know your own pension . |
| 19 | You are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way — hello ? |
| 20 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 21 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 22 | ‘ Bet Rachel 's ‘ avin ’ a good laugh , ’ he muttered wryly to himself for not only had he volunteered for fire-watching duties , but he had also volunteered the services of Dobbs and the cart since there was news of petrol rationing . |
| 23 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 24 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
| 25 | Hector whined his impatience , bringing Theda back to herself with a start . |
| 26 | For instance , someone who acts out neurotic conflicts by committing crimes like theft or robbery may be able to represent these activities even to himself as a response to material need rather than unconscious compulsion . |
| 27 | Dorothea gathered her wits , calm and reassuring even to herself in a crisis . |
| 28 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 29 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 30 | Notice that the presence of the signal e.m.f. in both these cases causes the load line to move parallel to itself with time . |