Example sentences of "she [verb] [pn reflx] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does anyone ? ’ she caught herself saying rashly . |
| 2 | ‘ Have people let you down , then , Bella ? ’ she found herself saying . |
| 3 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 4 | She found herself saying that she felt her father was going to ‘ drop down ’ in some way . |
| 5 | ‘ I like Mr Evans , ’ she found herself saying . |
| 6 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |
| 7 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 8 | But after a hesitant pause she found herself saying , ‘ I believe you had a slight mishap on a film last year — in France . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I could have a go later ? ’ she found herself saying . |
| 10 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 11 | Again she heard herself say , ‘ that' , and then she managed to stammer , ‘ w … was my sister , ’ before the floating feeling overcame her and she-knew she was falling into somewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll never forgive you , ’ she heard herself say . |
| 13 | She heard herself say , ‘ So she 's S. Kettering ? ’ |
| 14 | With her conscious mind telling her what to say and do , her emotions rebelled and she heard herself say something quite contradictory to its orders : |
| 15 | She heard herself say , ‘ Why not ? ’ but if the words reached him he made no sign . |
| 16 | When he slid his fingers across the spring of gold curls , parting the intimate secret of her , finding the hard nub of her womanhood before slipping below to the hot , molten tightness at her centre , she tensed and then capitulated in a flood of aching heat , and she heard herself say his name , moan his name again and again . |
| 17 | I 'm Lisa Howell , ’ she heard herself say . |
| 18 | She heard herself say , ‘ You seem to be forgetting about Nina . |
| 19 | Her lips parted to tell him so , and then she heard herself say , to her own amazement , ‘ Take me to Les Hiboux , please . ’ |
| 20 | And then , to her astonishment , she heard herself say , ‘ Should n't you go upstairs and see how Janice is ? |
| 21 | But , instead , she heard herself say , ‘ I 'm terribly sorry . ’ |
| 22 | Then she heard herself say in a voice that sounded almost normal , ‘ Of course . |
| 23 | She heard herself saying : ‘ I opened it by accident , see . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If we wait till the rain stops they may hear us , ’ she heard herself saying . |
| 25 | But … against her will , she heard herself saying , ‘ What story , Gran ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And closer than you too believe , Lord of the Hill of Assaroe , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ for it is through humankind that Otherworld will be saved . ’ |
| 27 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 28 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 29 | Instead , she heard herself saying , ‘ Where 's Mum ? |
| 30 | ‘ Speak to Charlie , ’ she heard herself saying , and turned up the pressure . |