Example sentences of "[verb] to [pn reflx] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 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 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 4 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 5 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 6 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 7 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 12 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 13 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 14 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 15 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 16 | Smiling to herself at the thought , and confident that it was now too late to be interrupted further , Alexandra went upstairs . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 18 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |