Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the conversation replayed , Bernice felt herself go cold . |
| 2 | Lucy felt herself go tense . |
| 3 | ‘ Your cousin at home , is he , Angharad ? ’ he asked mildly and Hari felt herself grow tense . |
| 4 | Shiona felt herself tense . |
| 5 | Ruth made herself smile . |
| 6 | Ruth made herself say it . |
| 7 | Felipe stopped again and Maggie made herself look , the weakness of sheer relief flooding through her . |
| 8 | Rachaela made herself look back at the white face of her child . |
| 9 | Ruth heard herself scream as Adam lost his grip on her , and she fell down into the water . |
| 10 | Loretta felt herself blush and her fury rose : she was equally angry with the man , who had done it to discomfit her , and herself , for reacting . |
| 11 | Loretta felt herself blush . |
| 12 | As they drew nearer to the damage and she could see that it was even worse than it had looked from afar , Ronni felt herself recoil at the very thought that her own brother could be responsible for such a thing . |
| 13 | Ronni felt herself wince in the face of his sudden anger , but at the same time , finally , she understood something . |
| 14 | Ronni felt herself smile . |
| 15 | Ruth felt herself stiffen . |
| 16 | Chen felt himself go very still . |
| 17 | The others were already mounted and Maggie felt herself begin to tremble as Felipe came up and prepared to help her . |
| 18 | Julia let herself lean against him . |
| 19 | For a miracle , almost boiling hot water poured out of the taps into the bath and Julia let herself have a really deep bath for once , lying there dreaming about the day when her life might be whole again and weaving plans to make it so , until the skin of her fingers and toes crinkled and the water felt cold . |
| 20 | Edward looked warningly at Helen and Helen heard herself say that there was a small piece of land . |
| 21 | Alyssia heard herself whisper , wishing that there were a white slave-trade in operation , because that would have been infinitely preferable to being confronted by him . |
| 22 | Alexandra heard herself gasp . |
| 23 | And then , purely on impulse , Cardiff heard himself ask a crazy question , but a question that was no crazier than the situation he 'd found himself in of late , with people who vanished into and out of walls , the hideous death of four people , three of them his own men and a stalking monstrosity from the pages of a horror comic out there somewhere in the night … not to mention cars that just fell out of the sky . |
| 24 | Cecilia heard herself gasp and at once put her hand up to her mouth . |
| 25 | Isabel heard herself ask the question but her attention was suddenly drawn to the servant setting food and trenchers on the table . |
| 26 | Paige made herself move , because action was infinitely more preferable than thought right then . |
| 27 | Adam heard himself ask Kragan . |
| 28 | Jessamy heard herself give a small gasp . |
| 29 | Shelley felt herself blush hotly . |
| 30 | Middlemass made himself look into them , and then turned his glance away . |