Example sentences of "to himself in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 2 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark . |
| 7 | Wexford chuckled to himself in the car . |