Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [v-ing] to [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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1 | I plead , as I am also pleading to myself . |
2 | ‘ I was just talking to myself . |
3 | On the house ! ’ you are probably mumbling to yourself as you polish off the bottle of Jim Beam meant for the 15 April issue winner . |
4 | You 're probably thinking to yourself now how thick I am . |
5 | So she was quietly humming to herself . |
6 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
7 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
8 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |