Example sentences of "she [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 2 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |
| 3 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead , she found herself drawn to a large open window cut into one wall . |
| 8 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 9 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 10 | She felt herself moving to the side with the others , as the lights were lowered , and a stool placed in the centre of the dance-floor . |
| 11 | She forced herself to listen to the service , the man 's responses firm and gruff , the girl 's scarcely audible . |
| 12 | She forced herself to go to the cinema knowing that otherwise she would grow increasingly depressed at home . |
| 13 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |