Example sentences of "to myself [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's a position that 's only too familiar to myself as an ex-member of the Camel Laird workforce . |
| 3 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 4 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 5 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 6 | Also my teaching is squeezed into 4 days , which means that I have time to myself at the weekend , including Friday . |
| 7 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |
| 8 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 9 | I think I 'll keep it to myself for a while . |
| 10 | ‘ Besides , if we hurry home , I can have you all to myself for a while before they come . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
| 12 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 15 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |