Example sentences of "look [prep] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 3 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 4 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 5 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 6 | No , Kathleen thought , looking at herself in the mirror , at her own , pale face , no , she is not afraid , that is not it , Isabel has never known fear . |
| 7 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 8 | Looking at herself in the mirror she saw that her eyes were swollen and her face blotchy . |
| 9 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 10 | Looking at herself in the looking-glass on the stairs she saw how small and pink her eyes looked , their lids still puffy and her skin was tired and lifeless . |
| 11 | Looking at herself in the mirror , she was very satisfied . |
| 12 | She combed her hair , looking at herself in the mirror . |
| 13 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 14 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 15 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 16 | Look at yourself in the mirror . |
| 17 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , you are gazing into the eyes of a predator . |
| 18 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , no amount of willing can remove er , fat around your waist . |
| 19 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 20 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 21 | A few days later , I look at myself in the mirror . |
| 22 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |
| 23 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 24 | I would look at myself in the mirror , check out the grey hairs , trace the emerging lines and fading lip line and ask myself , ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But at the end of the day , I can look at myself in the mirror and say I gave 100 per cent . |
| 26 | You think I can look at myself in the morning with a damn great blue glass spike in my skull yelling at me , ‘ Hey , you 're a freak ’ ? |
| 27 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 28 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 29 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 30 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |