Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 2 | She switched off the engine , glanced at herself in the driving mirror and got out , letting Bunny jump on to the drive . |
| 3 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 4 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 5 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 6 | She stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 7 | They looked at themselves in the Hall of a Million Mirrors . |
| 8 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 9 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 12 | I looked at myself in the rearview mirror . |
| 13 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 14 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
| 15 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 16 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 17 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
| 18 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 19 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 20 | She looked at herself in the mirror , knowing that she looked good . |
| 21 | She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled , thinking that only the birds could see her . |
| 22 | She struggled into the blue dress and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rhoda looked at herself in the mirror and said , ‘ I do n't see much wrong with me . |
| 26 | She looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 27 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 28 | Daisy gazed at herself in the mirror . |
| 29 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 30 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |