Example sentences of "[verb] to [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 5 | There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung . |
| 6 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 7 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |
| 8 | Her shriek awakened the house , and Coleridge , who had been asleep when his father returned , knew at once what it signified , saying to himself in the darkness , ‘ Papa is dead . ’ |
| 9 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 10 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 11 | Wexford chuckled to himself in the car . |
| 12 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 13 | He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark . |
| 14 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 15 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 16 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 17 | Children do not listen to themselves in the way that adults ( sometimes ) do . |