Example sentences of "she gave [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 4 | She gave herself up to the water almost gratefully . |
| 5 | Such airs she gave herself ! |
| 6 | She gave herself a little shake . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 9 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |
| 10 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 11 | You 're telling me she gave herself to the German to stop him finding the wine ? |
| 12 | His mouth came gently to her neck and she gave herself again to the lion . |
| 13 | She gave herself time to regain her self-control and when she spoke again her manner was more composed . |
| 14 | She gave herself a full minute to find her bearings in this mute kingdom , and her senses made the adjustment gratefully . |
| 15 | But as she opened her mouth to suggest it , she gave herself a mental shake . |
| 16 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 17 | She gave herself the pleasure of recalling Henry Yaxlee and his calm sea-like presence . |
| 18 | She gave herself a mental shake . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She gave herself a mental shake ; Marianne was simply like many other egocentric actresses she 'd met — interested more in herself than in anything else — but that did n't necessarily mean she was trying to shut Shannon out . |
| 21 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 22 | She gave herself the morning off and left the hacienda . |
| 23 | She gave herself a small mental hug . |
| 24 | A sigh escaped her , and as she gave herself up to the pleasure of his embrace her arm rose to entwine about his neck . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Her eyes closed as her lips parted , then she gave herself up to the joy of feeling his heart begin to thud . |
| 27 | With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post . |
| 28 | She gave herself airs , was the tenor of her complaint . |
| 29 | Sylvia 's journey to truth begins when she writes a novel about incest in 1972 , she gave herself a clue in calling the book Pandora . |
| 30 | She gave herself a shake . |