Example sentences of "to himself about " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 2 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 3 | But the T'ang had kept his thoughts to himself about the killing . |
| 4 | The Captain , not having the names readily to mind , dropped the matter and chuckled to himself about it for a week . |
| 5 | 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 . |