Example sentences of "[verb] to herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also carrying an armful of her books and papers , and fielding an orange which rolls free from the overloaded briefcase she is cradling to herself . |
| 2 | Mum did n't bother to reply but went off mumbling to herself , not forgetting to shut the door with a bang after her . |
| 3 | Lizzie was indignant and padded back to the kitchen mumbling to herself . |
| 4 | But she pretended to herself that she had not seen it , or that she had misinterpreted it . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , my picture 's not going up there , ’ she grumbled to herself . |
| 6 | Ross had no right to automatically expect her to suddenly become an efficient home-maker , she grumbled to herself as she got up to clear the dirty plates from the small dining-room table . |
| 7 | ‘ Not easy for a middle-aged broad like me , ’ she joked to herself . |
| 8 | As the room slowly slipped into darkness , the lowering skies bringing on an early evening , Patrick sat by the window , staring out onto the streets below , listening to the noises in the bathroom as Jane gently hummed to herself . |
| 9 | Grasshoppers three a-fiddling went , Alix hummed to herself , as she ran down Whitehall for the bus , swinging her shoulder bag in the cold , bright , showery , uncertain sun of late April . |
| 10 | It was pleasant to be in the kitchen and Melanie hummed to herself as she hung cups from their hooks and propped the plates . |
| 11 | She hummed to herself when she was working and should you pass her when she was on her knees polishing the floor , or slapping dough on the board — she made bread for them all — she would come out with some remark that would either cause you to make a retort in similar vein or have you burst out laughing . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 13 | Sophie nodded , keeping to herself the thought that George was expounding a powerful argument against the keeping of animals in zoos . |
| 14 | ‘ Idiot ! ’ she shouted to herself . |
| 15 | Later , Miss Logan would try picturing to herself her employer 's curious serenity of face and confidence of carriage as they started down the mountain ; she exhibited contentment bordering on smugness . |
| 16 | It 's impossible ! she exclaimed to herself , getting up and leaning on the rough stone windowsill . |
| 17 | She did n't take five years out and say to herself , ‘ I 'm really going to learn music . ’ |
| 18 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 19 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 20 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 21 | Paralysed in its grip , she kept telling herself , over and over again , that she must n't leave him to drown : whatever Bella had said to her , however much she herself hated him , there was no point in pretending to herself that she could abandon anyone , not even him , to die . |
| 22 | Because although she kept a guard on her tongue when she was with him , determined not to risk another quarrel , she had had to stop pretending to herself . |
| 23 | With the court having ordered the husband 's interest to be conveyed or transferred to the wife , or agreement to that effect having been reached , it may be that the wife requests or desires that the house be conveyed or transferred to herself and her new husband . |
| 24 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 25 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 26 | And detergent , she added to herself . |
| 27 | Like Outer Mongolia , she added to herself , as she lifted up her own cup and drank . |
| 28 | Blinkered , old-fashioned ; maybe , she added to herself , ripe for the kill . |
| 29 | ‘ That man did not like me , ’ Charity said quietly , and added to herself , And I did not like him . |
| 30 | ‘ When she sees me in sex scenes she says to herself ‘ Oh , he is only acting . |