Example sentences of "[v-ing] to myself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 4 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 5 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 6 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |