Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she felt herself close to tears . |
| 2 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
| 3 | So she allowed herself to return at last . |
| 4 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 5 | Unconsciously she found herself searching for Niall . |
| 6 | Wearily she forced herself to move through the Castle , and presently found the trapdoor . |
| 7 | But as the days went on she found herself working with him more and more frequently , delegating the routine tasks to the general office on the ground floor . |
| 8 | Almost immediately Niall was waylaid , and involuntarily she found herself searching for his dark head in the crowd . |
| 9 | When she dared to look up she found herself gazing into burning dark eyes , and when she could n't look away , Alain brought her closer , his arms closing round her as he crushed her against his strength . |
| 10 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 11 | Then she heard herself say in a voice that sounded almost normal , ‘ Of course . |
| 12 | Then she knew herself addressed by Emilia Frere . |
| 13 | And then she found herself thinking about Elaine . |
| 14 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 15 | She says that in retrospect , she wonders why she allowed herself to wade through it . |
| 16 | Yet she found herself observing with an edge of sarcasm , ‘ Indeed ? |
| 17 | Amazingly she found herself treated to a brief smile as Niall , hair concealed beneath the operating cap , glanced briefly in her direction before he bent over the unconscious man once more . |
| 18 | Luke was standing outside on the balcony , and once again she found herself looking at his back . |
| 19 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 20 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |