Example sentences of "she [verb] [pn reflx] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't remember when she had last eaten and , although she still was n't hungry , she made herself swallow every mouthful . |
| 2 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 3 | Cups , saucers , a small jug of milk ; she made herself busy while they talked business . |
| 4 | She made herself stand up to him , " The water tank up there is rotten , it 's rusting . |
| 5 | She made herself stand a little taller . |
| 6 | In an effort to quell the hysteria she made herself do ordinary things — putting the kettle on to boil — milk to warm — instant coffee in two brown mugs . |
| 7 | She made herself breathe through her mouth as slowly as she could to hush her own sounds , and inhaled the odours of the earth with her own warm respiration . |
| 8 | She made herself smile . |
| 9 | She made herself smile . |
| 10 | She made herself sound enthusiastic , bursting with ideas . |
| 11 | And she made herself look about her , at the odd heaps lying on the rough ground , and she said to herself , ‘ Yes , he was right , it 'll be better if it 's paved . |
| 12 | With an effort , she made herself look with interest around his office , though it was really beautifully furnished and her initial pretence changed to frank admiration . |
| 13 | She made herself spend less time with Carolyn , monitoring her own contact with her . |
| 14 | She made herself read to keep from crying : Hilda Bevans , two credits , three passes in Oxford School Certificate , 1944 ; Marjorie Grace Pickthorne , one distinction , two credits , four passes in Oxford School Certificate , 1945 . |
| 15 | Her body had stiffened for a moment but she made herself relax and huddle against him . |
| 16 | ‘ He was flying last night , was n't he ? ’ she made herself ask it . |
| 17 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 18 | Wearily , she let herself rest against him . |
| 19 | She let herself press back against him . |
| 20 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 21 | She had had enough of the blackout and the bombing and the shortages , and if she let herself think too much about the invasion she would become quite ill . |
| 22 | It was frightening , if she let herself think about it , how much could happen in a year . |
| 23 | She let herself drift off to memories of fiercely joyful nights that now … that now … |
| 24 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 25 | I tried to help her see that if she let herself go enough to enjoy playing building bricks too , Nicola would n't feel the need to throw them around to get the attention she wanted . |
| 26 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 27 | As he drew her close to him , she let herself fall against him . |
| 28 | If she let herself believe even a word of that then she would be just as bad as they were ! |
| 29 | She let herself glance back . |
| 30 | ‘ In the room with the French windows , ’ she heard herself answer . |