Example sentences of "she [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved of her professional role , she manifested herself as an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne . |
| 2 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |
| 3 | And if he decided that he did n't want a divorce ? she asked herself with a small shiver . |
| 4 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 5 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 6 | " And what next ? " she asked herself in a low voice . |
| 7 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 8 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 9 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 10 | Since Robbie 's own heated state had been engendered by his unexpected physical onslaught , she found herself without a suitable answer . |
| 11 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 12 | Suddenly she found herself under an intense media spotlight , enduring a 24-hour guard until she was 16 . |
| 13 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 14 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 15 | When she emerged , she found herself in a small square beside a canal so wide that she immediately realised it must be the Grand Canal itself . |
| 16 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 17 | When Sarella pushed it open she found herself in a sunlit room full of the latest office equipment . |
| 18 | But somehow , she found herself in a large , empty room . |
| 19 | Her new velvet cloak was whisked away , and she found herself in a large red room full of lights and people . |
| 20 | She found herself in a large square hall , with a pair of half-glazed doors ahead of her leading directly into the kitchen , and wooden double doors to her left , giving access to the rest of the house . |
| 21 | Opening it , she found herself in a large room in which row upon row of men sat behind video screens . |
| 22 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 23 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 24 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
| 25 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 26 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 27 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 28 | Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean . |
| 29 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 30 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |