Example sentences of "[adv] to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | There were only the crickets shrilling away to themselves in the bushes . |
| 7 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way — hello ? |
| 11 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hector whined his impatience , bringing Theda back to herself with a start . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dorothea gathered her wits , calm and reassuring even to herself in a crisis . |
| 17 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 18 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 19 | ‘ The food would probably be excellent , ’ the novel ends , as Julian the camp-survivor muses happily to himself in a sunlit Paris where he has settled , staring into a favourite restaurant in the Latin Quarter : ‘ He began to examine the menu . |
| 20 | When you 're criticised by others , there can be great solace in thinking quietly to yourself about the flip side of the description . |