Example sentences of "[verb] to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 7 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 8 | Prince and Starky also referred to themselves as the ‘ Two Anointed Ones ’ . |
| 9 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 10 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 11 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 12 | It is a method of RE which focuses on pupils ' own capacity to relate to themselves at a deeper level — to their own authentic feelings and insights . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | We pray for men and women in lands where there is hatred of one group for another , that their hearts may be turned to yourself in the search for righteousness and truth . |
| 15 | They added to themselves over the years . |
| 16 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 17 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 18 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 19 | ( If you are reluctant to commit yourself to paper , speak to yourself in a mirror . ) |
| 20 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 21 | Basically these procedures attempt to teach the individual to talk to themselves in a confident and positive manner which anticipates success in the given task . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 23 | Damn Julius ! she muttered to herself in a great surge of resentment . |
| 24 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 26 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 27 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 28 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 29 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 30 | We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . " |