Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in the mirror " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked to the phone , pausing on the way to take another admiring look at himself in the mirror . |
| 2 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 3 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 4 | He removed his jacket , trousers , shirt , tie and underclothes and studied himself in the mirror . |
| 5 | He looked , he thought as he examined himself in the mirror , more than usually hideous . |
| 6 | Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel . |
| 7 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 8 | Waugh hated visions of himself in the mirror . |
| 9 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 10 | Even a trial separation from Barnet was too much for Fry , who says that he could n't have looked himself in the mirror if he 'd refused to come back . |
| 11 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 12 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 13 | He examined himself in the mirror . |
| 14 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 15 | St Ives began to pace backwards and forwards , watching himself in the mirror and pulling in his stomach . |
| 16 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 17 | Two hours later , full of beer and bravado , Harry contemplated a reflection of himself in the mirror behind the bar of the Glue pot Inn and calculated that , even when sobriety had returned to drain away his courage , he would not change his mind . |
| 18 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 19 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 20 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 21 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 22 | No , Kathleen thought , looking at herself in the mirror , at her own , pale face , no , she is not afraid , that is not it , Isabel has never known fear . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then she padded across to a low stool and sat down , surveying herself in the mirror that lined her bathroom walls on two sides . |
| 25 | Daisy gazed at herself in the mirror . |
| 26 | Joanna Grenside is described as beautiful — but when she sees herself in the mirror , she wo n't see that . |
| 27 | She peered appraisingly at herself in the mirror , pulling faces as if she were alone , and I was embarrassed by her candour . |
| 28 | Looking at herself in the mirror she saw that her eyes were swollen and her face blotchy . |
| 29 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 30 | Jane grimaced at herself in the mirror . |