Example sentences of "to himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 2 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 3 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 4 | It was Geordie , he was muttering out loud to himself in his strong Geordie accent . |
| 5 | Wexford chuckled to himself in the car . |
| 6 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 7 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 8 | Then there were the Paris student riots , the Biafran conflict and scenes of devastating suffering and starvation ; Yasser Arafat became head of the PLO and enlisted thousands of young people into his army ; Muammar Gaddafi threw out the Libyan monarchy and installed himself as his nation 's leader and hero of terrorist factions everywhere ; the streets of Ulster became a battle zone with troops , fire bombs and unbelievable scenes of street-fighting ; Jan Palach , a twenty-one-year-old Czech student set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square to protest at the Soviet invasion of Prague . |
| 9 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 10 | a strangely good baby , always laughing and talking to himself in his own fashion , kicking in his pram , talking to the trees . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark . |
| 14 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 15 | Edouard defined his work to himself in two stages : first , he would restore ; then he would build and expand . |
| 16 | In 1924 he got a chapter to himself in Harold Begbie 's The Conservative Mind , a best-selling effort by a popular journalist to identify a Tory tradition representing the best in English life . |
| 17 | It is most unlikely that Wordsworth ever thought of his philosophical ideas as a ‘ Creed ’ ; later he said that we are not supposed to take literally his reference to himself in Tintern Abbey as ‘ a worshipper of Nature ’ . |
| 18 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 19 | He said he talked to himself in prison to keep himself sane , but if you told him he was still doing it he would n't believe you . ’ |
| 20 | Then a dreadful thing happened , or so I heard , for they had left the farm by then , ; the poor Rector — I expect it was his own doing , for they say he drank far too much — set fire to himself in bed one night , and the house was burnt and he with it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The food would probably be excellent , ’ the novel ends , as Julian the camp-survivor muses happily to himself in a sunlit Paris where he has settled , staring into a favourite restaurant in the Latin Quarter : ‘ He began to examine the menu . |
| 23 | Each character sees something most abhorrent to himself in the tapestries — his loved ones being defiled and slaughtered , Clerics of his religion being massacred , his people being slain by racial enemies , or similar . |
| 24 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 25 | Graham reluctantly pushed one of the cassettes into the system , waved the cigarette smoke irritably from his face , then turned his attention to the New York skyline and started to name the numerous skyscrapers to himself in an attempt to pass the time . |
| 26 | He talks to himself in his room . |
| 27 | As with the Scarborough grant , Gloucester was surrendering land of little value to himself in return for a significant acquisition . |
| 28 | We must turn to Law 's leading supporters as well as to himself in order to assess the real character of the party . |
| 29 | Asquith 's fall was the result of his own miscalculation , especially of his reluctance to believe that the Unionists would prefer Lloyd George to himself in a contest . |
| 30 | Even though the subject matter may be such that it is difficult to come to rapid conclusions by , say , an objective test , the question should still be asked so that the teacher can explain to himself in all honesty what he is about . |