Example sentences of "[v-ing] herself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she padded across to a low stool and sat down , surveying herself in the mirror that lined her bathroom walls on two sides . |
| 2 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 3 | She smoothed the clinging dress over her hips , eyeing herself in the glass . |
| 4 | Sighing , she pulled on socks and sweater , then knotted the scarf at her throat and secured one of the ends to her sweater with the silver lioness brooch so automatically that she paused , eyeing herself in the mirror . |
| 5 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
| 6 | A beautiful woman , Simone Weil said , seeing herself in the mirror , knows ‘ This is I. ’ An ugly woman knows , with equal certainty , ‘ This is not I. ’ Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification . |
| 7 | Soon I 'll hear her primping herself in the bedroom , cosseting her curves in silk and lace . |
| 8 | Flushing hotly , she sat up rigidly , bracing herself in the seat . |
| 9 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 10 | Mum kept preening herself in the glass until Frankie could contain himself no longer . |
| 11 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 12 | She set to work with a vengeance , losing herself in the difficult task of making all those fiercely vivid images of him that were swirling around in her head tangible . |
| 13 | He kept summoning up more strength to attack the ‘ fatal evil of burying herself in the past . ’ |
| 14 | Her thoughts were interrupted by the unusual sight of Fru Møller stationing herself in the middle of the study and clearing her throat . |
| 15 | Apart from involving herself in the thick of the action , Rosemary spends a lot of time giving public talks , raising funds for both the Jubilee Sailing Trust and the training of dogs for the Hearing Dogs for the Deaf scheme . |
| 16 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 17 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 18 | At the time Peter supposed she was either a connoisseur of funerals or a casual visitor who , finding herself in the middle of the funeral , had stayed because she was too embarrassed to leave . |
| 19 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 20 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 21 | Where Macbeth had been concealed or opaque to Duncan , and was thus in a superior position , manipulating him by pretence , we now see Lady Macbeth putting herself in the dominant position , planning to manipulate her husband : Macbeth is now transparent to her , and she to us . |
| 22 | By ‘ Putting Herself in the Picture ’ she put her audience in the picture , and we are indebted to her for that . |
| 23 | It would mean putting herself in the hands of a complete stranger , a stranger who might even be involved in Puddephat 's murder . |
| 24 | The woman , she thought , vaguely recognising herself in the words . |
| 25 | Once , when she caught Cissie with her head down , drying herself in the heat from the fire with her hair hanging over her eyes and dangerously close to the flames , her heart had turned somersaults . |
| 26 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 27 | It showed a girl by a sunlit window with her back turned , apparently drying her loins and watching herself in the mirror at the same time . |
| 28 | ‘ I know what you said , Steve , ’ she said , stretching herself in the passenger seat , ‘ but I 've got nothing better to do and Palma is so hot and stuffy . ’ |