Example sentences of "she gave herself [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave herself up to the water almost gratefully . |
| 2 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |
| 3 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 6 | A sigh escaped her , and as she gave herself up to the pleasure of his embrace her arm rose to entwine about his neck . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her eyes closed as her lips parted , then she gave herself up to the joy of feeling his heart begin to thud . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Exhausted , she gave herself up to the motion . |
| 12 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was n't good at being silly , but she gave herself over to the moment . |
| 16 | She gave herself over completely to sensation . |