Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] the mirror " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered into the mirror . |
| 2 | She stands before the mirror , looking straight through her own reflection , scowls at the glass and blows a decidedly twentieth-century raspberry straight at me . |
| 3 | She bounced to the mirror to powder and tweak for a moment , catching Conroy 's eye and giving him a wink . |
| 4 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 5 | She turned from the mirror now , with a smile on her face and I wondered if her unease had just been an illusion of my own . |
| 6 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 7 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 8 | A short while later she glanced in the mirror , seeing a small , slender figure dressed in a mid-calf-length denim skirt , cuban-heeled cowboy-boots and white fringed shirt , her riotous auburn curls left tumbling free over her shoulders . |
| 9 | She looked into the mirror , moving her hips in time to some silent music in her head , letting the silky skirt swish enticingly around her legs — And saw another stranger looking back at her , eyes and mouth dreaming and vulnerable . |
| 10 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 11 | After putting her hat and coat back on , she looked in the mirror , and she twisted her face up and stabbed her fingers towards her reflection as she said , ‘ That is n't me ! |
| 12 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 13 | Mechanically she looked in the mirror . |
| 14 | She looked in the mirror , exclaiming in dismay at her appearance . |
| 15 | You ought to have seen her when she looked in the mirror . |
| 16 | When she had finished , she went to the mirror , took off her glasses , and fixed on two strips of the false eyelashes that Gloria had left scattered on the table . |
| 17 | She went to the mirror , studying herself . |
| 18 | Then she spoke to the mirror , ‘ There were times when he was drunk , when I tried to take advantage of him , thinking he might forget to use one of those … things ! ’ |
| 19 | She stood before the mirror in full brothel gear . |