Example sentences of "she give [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth came gently to her neck and she gave herself again to the lion . |
| 2 | She gave herself up to the water almost gratefully . |
| 3 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |
| 4 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 5 | His lips seemed to draw out from her all that was sweet , all that was female , and she gave herself up to the moment with an abandon that shocked her . |
| 6 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 7 | A sigh escaped her , and as she gave herself up to the pleasure of his embrace her arm rose to entwine about his neck . |
| 8 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 9 | Her eyes closed as her lips parted , then she gave herself up to the joy of feeling his heart begin to thud . |
| 10 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 11 | Shutting her eyes to the inevitability of what lay ahead , she gave herself up to the ride as he took her higher and higher into the peaks , following a winding route off the main road that was little used . |
| 12 | Exhausted , she gave herself up to the motion . |
| 13 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 14 | Her husband 's lovemaking was gentle and restrained compared to the fierce passion which now engulfed all her senses as she gave herself utterly and completely in an explosion of abandonment . |
| 15 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 16 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 17 | She was n't good at being silly , but she gave herself over to the moment . |
| 18 | She gave herself over completely to sensation . |
| 19 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |