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Example sentences of "[verb] to himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown .
2	The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all .
3	Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute .
4	Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ .
5	He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman .
6	He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice .
7	He blinked , and came to himself with a start .
8	‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen .
9	‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part .
10	Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way .
11	The contemplation on the Godhead is an explanation of the Trinity as God , the original creative power , who enjoys the goodness of company in the Son whose wisdom is bound to himself by the love which is the Holy Ghost .
12	He smiles to himself in the mirror .
13	That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across .
14	‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades .
15	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 . ’
16	Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space .
17	The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden .
18	He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence .
19	This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago .
20	On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur .
21	He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being .
22	Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up .
23	Wexford chuckled to himself in the car .
24	I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought .
25	In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment .
26	McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript .
27	He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs .
28	Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that .
29	He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark .
30	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 .