Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 2 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 3 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 4 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 5 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 6 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |
| 7 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 8 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 9 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 10 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 11 | She struggled into the blue dress and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 12 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 13 | She clipped the long , dark swathes of her hair back from her face with a couple of combs ; then she slowly walked over and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 14 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 15 | ‘ I could get a job and live by myself in a bed-sitting room , like the girls in stories in magazines . ’ |
| 16 | Anna looked at Peter again and said to herself in a guilty whisper , ‘ Will he become even more difficult ? ’ |