Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not bring himself to look at her . |
| 2 | For a moment Luke still stood there as if he intended to say more , but Merrill could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 3 | She could n't bring herself to look at him , and God knew how she managed to drag out the conventional words in a voice already husky with pain . |
| 4 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 5 | The poor thing can hardly bring herself to speak at all . |
| 6 | I could n't bring myself to look at Mavis , with her neat grey bun and demure brooch linking the lapels of her Peter Pan collar . |
| 7 | It would probably read very stale now , if I could bring myself to look at it . |
| 8 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 9 | For the concerned middle classes , who could barely bring themselves to look at it , it was a horrible , violent , raucous vehicle out to destroy anything progressive or Right-On . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Kirov could not stop himself staring at Ybreska 's face and feeling the sense of overwhelming pity once again . |
| 11 | She would not permit herself to look at that either . |
| 12 | As for morals , I shall have on this policy to refuse to condemn even Hitler 's genocide , although I might permit myself to sneer at it as stupid , because the theories about the Aryan race and the Jewish conspiracy which inspired it were fantasies . |
| 13 | The nurse said of course they could use the phone , but they should have themselves looked at first . |
| 14 | Those who could feed themselves had at least had the choice of not eating the tapioca that they disliked and going hungry . |
| 15 | Charlie found that he could n't get himself to look at them , although he was still able to see from their reflection in the mirror behind the bar that they were deep in conversation . |
| 16 | " Any woman can get herself stared at if she 's loaded down with diamonds and other gewgaws . |
| 17 | John Plamenatz announced enthusiastically that " the voice of the people is heard everlastingly " through the spokespersons of these organizations , and Robert Dahl believed in the 1950s that the United States possessed " a political system in which all the active and legitimate groups in the population can make themselves heard at some critical stage in the process of decision " . |
| 18 | If justice reigns at all , we will find ourselves barred at the first threshold of the underworld . |
| 19 | Now she was praying that her idea was wrong , that she would find herself looking at someone totally unfamiliar . |
| 20 | Do you find yourself snapping at your partner when he does n't deserve it , or losing patience with your children , simply because you 're exhausted ? |
| 21 | Even worse , you could not , predict when , since you could find yourself re-emerging at any time , past or present . |
| 22 | For example , if you take advantage of one of the tourist office 's all-in weekends , you might find yourself staying at the Alte Rheinmuhle . |