Example sentences of "restrain [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was bursting to add : ‘ And what about Rose and the mark of the needle ? ’ but restrained himself , feeling that the timing was wrong . |
| 2 | Although his first impulse would have sent Alexander Ramsay spurring to join in this process , he restrained himself and his men . |
| 3 | Richmann 's scowl deepened , but he restrained himself from snapping an answer back at the General . |
| 4 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 5 | It was with difficulty that Greg restrained himself from saying ‘ What ! ’ , but knowing that his colleague would assume that he was being told he was about to become an unmarried father , and spread it , he said in the same world-weary voice : ‘ That 's very interesting . ’ |
| 6 | Jim must have felt like accelerating to the point of wheelspin but restrained himself and drove sedately to the Hungarian post . |
| 7 | Jane restrained herself from inquiring what she had done with it , for she sensed a field telegraph situation , so forced herself to be polite . |
| 8 | She restrained herself from reacting , except with a smile , which he returned . |
| 9 | She restrained herself from pinching another soldier . |
| 10 | She restrained herself . |
| 11 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 12 | But she restrained herself and , instead , retaliated verbally , abandoning for the moment her attempt to be sympathetic . |
| 13 | Mind you , I have an idea that this would be good to use as a weaving yarn , but I restrained myself from buying any — I have enough cones in the cupboard , thank you very much . |
| 14 | Why , I only restrained myself because she 's a female , she should think herself lucky . |
| 15 | Others said that Clinker had gone mad at the fusing point and could n't restrain himself . |
| 16 | But , a little further , where Whiteadder joined Tweed , and with the nearest of the English encampments liable to come into view within the next mile or so , he could no longer restrain himself . |
| 17 | His gaze was fastened on his daughter 's last careful steps down the stairs , as if he could barely restrain himself from running forward to hold out a hand to her . |
| 18 | Noticing a badly dressed woman while driving in Knightsbridge , she ca n't restrain herself from rolling down the window and crying out ‘ Why ? ’ in sheer exasperation . |
| 19 | After this ( but only ‘ when she was in any company ’ ) she could not restrain herself from saying , ‘ It is full merry in Heaven ’ . |
| 20 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 21 | When Ariel saw how the incomers failed to meet indigo 's exacting standards of care , she could not restrain herself from offering her expertise ; she tended , restaked , pruned and watered the trampled shrubberies of Sycorax , teaching the English how to cultivate the precious dye . |
| 22 | Then she could not restrain herself , pounced with a sharp cry on a smear under the handle of the colander . |
| 23 | She had n't eaten the spinach , and in doing so created a martyrdom ; now she must restrain herself from the agonizing satisfaction of telling Maman all the truth , thus getting Aunt Tossie into dreadful trouble . |
| 24 | Back to hospital and you must restrain yourself , old boy , nudge wink . |
| 25 | I could not restrain myself from hastening to view one of those Druid circles , of which there are so many in the Isle of Lewis ; that given in the small vignette is the first one I reached . |
| 26 | I realized he was probably right very early on , although I could n't always restrain myself . |
| 27 | However , I shall restrain myself ! |
| 28 | It was very good of you to offer but er er I I did restrain myself , I was going to , I was going to talk about |
| 29 | ‘ And when I kissed you it rushed through me , waves of it ; I could barely restrain myself , thought I was going to make love to you on the spot . |
| 30 | Indeed , South Africans had to openly restrain themselves from cheering for Will Carling 's heroes . |