Example sentences of "to himself " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 2 | The novelist referred to himself once as ‘ amorphous Roth ’ . |
| 3 | These omissions and transpositions indicate that Levi could well have kept to himself any plan he may have formed to end his life . |
| 4 | Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’ |
| 5 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 6 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 7 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 8 | Pretends he ca n't go anywhere alone and this is a chance for Tony to get some time to himself . |
| 9 | Would the outcome have been different had he acknowledged to himself what he was doing ? he wrote . |
| 10 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 11 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well I 'll be jiggered ! ’ he exclaimed to himself as he bent to unfasten his clips , ‘ I 'll be jiggered and no mistake . ’ |
| 13 | The Flemyng entourage , he said to himself , now what will he find fault with today , and what news will he have heard ? |
| 14 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 15 | Am I any different , Cameron was wondering to himself , and Byers , sensing the thought , grew more heated . |
| 16 | He enjoys his food and wine , but disallows its enjoyment to distort the image which is important chiefly to himself , and then to his public . |
| 17 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 18 | On one of his walks through Murray Park ( now King George VI Park ) he encountered a young Hispanic who was playing the guitar to himself . |
| 19 | ( The reference to one escaping with ‘ Bach and the folk-singers ’ is to himself . ) |
| 20 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 21 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |
| 22 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 23 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 24 | The first draft has ‘ he thought to himself ’ but nothing about the sister . |
| 25 | The second draft introduces the sister and cuts the thinking to himself . |
| 26 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 27 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 28 | We have just caught Raskolnikov saying to himself that the moth seeks the candle-flame , and Porfiry says similar things aloud ; while behind both of them Dostoevsky is telling Katkov that the murderer demands punishment and bends to an inexorable divine and human law when he gives himself up . |
| 29 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 30 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |