Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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1 | She was not thinking clearly and she prided herself on thinking clearly : priorities , motives , objectives . |
2 | He kissed her on the mouth and she tasted herself on his lips . |
3 | She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness . |
4 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
5 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
6 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
7 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
8 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |