Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Another effect of intrinsic curvature is revealed when a vector is transported round a closed path in such a way that it is moved parallel to itself at each step of the journey . |
| 3 | There were only the crickets shrilling away to themselves in the bushes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dorothea gathered her wits , calm and reassuring even to herself in a crisis . |
| 6 | This maxim Martha repeated fervently to herself during her first week at school . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only other occupants of Carewscourt were the cook , Mrs Joyce , and two maid-servants , and they kept strictly to themselves below stairs . |
| 10 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 11 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 14 | had all to itself with eyes like black pods |
| 15 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you 're criticised by others , there can be great solace in thinking quietly to yourself about the flip side of the description . |
| 18 | A wafer thin translucent something undulated through the air towards her , chuckling gently to itself in a liquid voice . |