Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only by relating outside ourselves to God that we can avoid this trap . |
| 2 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In addition it is hard for people who are becoming bitter and negative to see what is happening to themselves without incurring further guilt or self-dislike . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | John was capable of laughing at himself in respect of attempts at beautification . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although literary critics have been cautious about assuming that Hoccleve is indeed writing about himself in these passages , rather than adopting a conventional autobiographical stance which is in fact a fiction , there are strong arguments to support the reality of his claims . |
| 11 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 15 | The key to being naturally beautiful is looking after yourself on the inside as well as the outside and that means eating healthily . |
| 16 | At eighteen she is doing A levels at college and wants to train as an aromatherapist , because she feels that looking after yourself with massage and perfume can make you feel good about yourself . |
| 17 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ My daughter is twenty-eight , you know , quite capable of looking after herself without her parents breathing down her neck all the time . ’ |
| 19 | but , I was listening to myself on that |
| 20 | What I was listening to myself on that . |
| 21 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I 'd feel guilty if I started looking on myself as a victim . ’ |
| 24 | Beside her , Alan Markby was grinning to himself as if he knew what she was thinking . |
| 25 | Even at this early break in the morning , several husbands had lost bets and were to be glimpsed shouting at themselves in silence in corners . |
| 26 | I 'M ALWAYS LOOKING AT MYSELF THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE 'S EYES |
| 27 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 30 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |