Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 2 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 3 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 4 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 5 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 6 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 7 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 8 | She struggled into the blue dress and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 9 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 10 | She clipped the long , dark swathes of her hair back from her face with a couple of combs ; then she slowly walked over and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 11 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 12 | Benedict laid his burden gently on the bed , and sat down himself on the edge of it . |