Example sentences of "[verb] to himself [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With pride I announced to himself that The Royal Bank of Scotland had triumphed . |
| 4 | But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him . |
| 5 | ‘ But the learned educationist thrust these horrible suspicions aside and said to himself that the facts derived from books are making no impart because they are not properly learned . |