Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got herself seated at a table for four , ordered a glass of pastis , the local drink , and settled back to wait for her friends . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
| 5 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 6 | At one point , as the ancient taxi manoeuvred a particularly narrow twisting stretch of road , she found herself gazing into a steep-sided gorge . |
| 7 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 8 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |
| 9 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 10 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 11 | Every time she heard the slightest noise , she found herself glancing towards the archway . |
| 12 | She found herself struggling against a bitter , unreasonable disappointment . |
| 13 | Once again , she found herself thinking about the boy in the picture . |
| 14 | She found herself thinking of the story of Antonio and Louisa . |
| 15 | ‘ Let me take that , ’ said a male voice and turning she found herself looking into a pair of startlingly blue eyes . |
| 16 | Glad that her limited knowledge of Danish included an apology , she blinked away her tears , raising her eyes to the stranger 's face and freezing as completely as Lot 's wife as she found herself looking into the ice-blue eyes of the man she loved . |
| 17 | A sound had her spinning round and she found herself looking into the astonished eyes of Marie as the girl slid from her bicycle and walked forwards to confront her . |
| 18 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 19 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 22 | He pushed her head to his shoulder and she found herself snuggling into the comfort , relaxing as his hand stroked through her hair . |
| 23 | Shannon pulled the door open , her arms flung wide apart in exuberant welcome , but the broad smile froze on her lips as she found herself confronted by a tall , masculine figure . |
| 24 | She found herself bending over the old woman and hissing at her , ‘ If it 's so natural , Great-gran , why did a woman approach me today , the mother of one of the little girls at school , and suggest that my daughter was fantasising about her father being in the bath with her . |
| 25 | It is hard to imagine that Leapor would sentimentalize the condition of celibacy , especially if she found herself mocked as an old maid . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 29 | The housekeeper pushed Jennifer in the small of her back , and she found herself walking into a panelled room in which Lady Roscarrock sat in an ornately carved oak chair . |
| 30 | She found herself agreeing with the historian 's distaste for Mills ' personal morality . |