Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] himself at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 4 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 5 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 6 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 7 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |