Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Entertaining the proprietor was n't part of the job description , ’ she offered , her tone creamy as she nerved herself to continue the debate if necessary . |
| 2 | She could n't remember when she had last eaten and , although she still was n't hungry , she made herself swallow every mouthful . |
| 3 | She made herself stand a little taller . |
| 4 | Something in the tone of his voice reached her and she found herself unlocking the door , opening it , looking up at his hard , handsome face with wary eyes . |
| 5 | With every step her energy crackled ; scarcely knowing at first what she said , she found herself reciting the lines from Cymbeline . |
| 6 | She found herself envying the easy banter between her cousins and aunt , the argumentative informality of mealtimes , the laughter and bustle and hugs . |
| 7 | As she floated there , she found herself remembering the sight of Tsu Ma in the water , his chest bared , his hair slicked back ; the presence of his boots planted so solidly on the earth beneath the table ; the deep , warm vibration of his voice . |
| 8 | If she shared no blood tie with Hugh Russell , she found herself debating the morality of claiming any part of his estate at all . |
| 9 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 10 | A hand falling on Ace 's shoulder startled her back to reality , and she found herself facing a dripping Benny . |
| 11 | She found herself facing a glass-panelled door , with the luminous dot of a bell set in its frame . |
| 12 | Turning around , she found herself facing the dark , handsome-looking woman who 'd arrived with Ross Aldridge and whom Diane assumed to be his wife . |
| 13 | She found herself enjoying the sight of his embarrassment and frantic need to buy thinking time . |
| 14 | There was neither joy nor peace in the house and she found herself wishing the time away until it should be March . |
| 15 | Something snapped inside her and she found herself grabbing the mutton and wresting the plate , with what was left of the uncut joint still on it , and running with it from his crazed presence . |
| 16 | Miss Grimes had certainly been glad of the presents but she had not really seemed as destitute and lonely as Ianthe had expected — perhaps secretly even hoped — and she found herself resenting the way she had taken the violets . |
| 17 | She found herself running a comb through her hair , taking a short-hand pad and three pencils instead of the two which should surely have been enough , running a handkerchief over her dusty sandals and easing her left-hand stocking round her ankle a bit to keep the ladder out of sight . |
| 18 | She found herself having a tug-of-war over her best bra , and felt an overwhelming impulse to giggle at the silliness of the situation . |
| 19 | Nevertheless she found herself giving the details of her history to a woman over the telephone who fortunately spoke English , along , she was told , with five other languages . |
| 20 | Gradually she found herself breathing the clean , laundered smell of his linen shirt , and the warmer , subtler scent of his skin , with a growing and bewildered delight . |
| 21 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 22 | For the moment she busied herself making a fresh pot of tea , while Karen cleared the dirty plates and made room for their toast and marmalade . |
| 23 | Pressed against a window , she bullied herself to reach a decision . |
| 24 | As she allowed herself to close the gap in their relationship , John became irritable and demanding . |
| 25 | She heard herself ask the question , aghast at her stupidity . |
| 26 | When she thought about Simon , she felt herself taking a step into another world . |
| 27 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 28 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 29 | Jezrael 's heart beat faster but she forced herself to slow the shallow breathing of panic . |
| 30 | There was a thread of anger in the question , but Fran ignored it , just as she forced herself to ignore the sudden surge of hope that filled her heart . |