Example sentences of "[verb] to [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 5 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 6 | ( If you are reluctant to commit yourself to paper , speak to yourself in a mirror . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Damn Julius ! she muttered to herself in a great surge of resentment . |
| 10 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 11 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 12 | We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . " |
| 13 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 14 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 16 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 17 | The baby was lying in a cradle of osiers , crooning to itself like a wood-pigeon . |
| 18 | With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave . |
| 19 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 20 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 21 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 22 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 23 | She refers to herself as a ‘ household technician ’ , ’ Laura snorted grimly . |
| 24 | There were several photographs of a woman in a state of total or semi-undress ( obscured where necessary , as this rag liked to refer to itself as a ‘ family newspaper ’ ) disporting herself around the club premises . |
| 25 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 26 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 27 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
| 28 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 29 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 30 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |