Example sentences of "he [verb] to [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exuberant man , nervous , poetic , with a way of pulling his long fingers one by one when something was making him laugh to himself . |
| 2 | Then I heard him mutter to himself : ‘ Avare comme tous les juifs ’ . |
| 3 | On one occasion my mother , Lady Ermengilde , found him muttering to himself , something about the same number Vechey mentioned — thirty-one . |
| 4 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 5 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 6 | Later he made to himself excuses for Eden ; that he left Durham young and that his childhood was unhappy . |
| 7 | However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta 's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels . |
| 8 | So he points to himself nervously and says , ‘ No , I 'm James … ’ |
| 9 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 10 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 11 | Plus , of course , he admitted to himself wryly , the fact that the hours and the work do n't make me the ideal boy-friend , let alone husband . |
| 12 | The Rev Anthony Freeman said he felt a great sense of relief when he admitted to himself he did not hold to the traditional view of God . |
| 13 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 14 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 15 | All the way back to the Franz Joseph he blustered to himself , justified everything he had done , and thought how dreary and provincial they all were . |
| 16 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 17 | He hummed to himself as they continued northwards . |
| 18 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 19 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 20 | ‘ Me bones always ache , ’ he grumbled to himself . |
| 21 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 22 | He pretended to himself that Repton was a gloriously happy time . |
| 23 | ‘ Well I 'll be jiggered ! ’ he exclaimed to himself as he bent to unfasten his clips , ‘ I 'll be jiggered and no mistake . ’ |
| 24 | Saved you there , Lexy ! ’ he exclaimed to himself , forgetful that he was on an open channel . |
| 25 | Yanto smiled ‘ Look at that ’ he mused to himself , ‘ you could have a crap and eat fresh loganberries at the same time . ’ |
| 26 | I wonder how Julie stacks up in the grub stakes , he mused to himself . |
| 27 | He says to himself , ‘ Thank goodness we have here a writer who understands our secret feelings . ’ |
| 28 | " Let it snow till it reaches the chimney-pots , " he says to himself . |
| 29 | ‘ Our total path is 1,900 miles , ’ he muttered to himself . |
| 30 | ‘ Still , ’ he muttered to himself . |