Example sentences of "as she [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |
| 2 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
| 3 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 4 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 5 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 6 | She practically flung herself into the driver 's seat , moaning loudly with pain as she eased herself into position and started the engine . |
| 7 | Carrie had her back to him as she busied herself by the fire . |
| 8 | Deciding it was right , she left it to swing lightly between her breasts as she sprayed herself with Dune , the new Christian Dior fragrance , on her way to answer the doorbell . |
| 9 | He stood her back and looked : she stripped off his gown and , as he was there standing , he hoisted her up and held her easily as she straddled herself around him . |
| 10 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 11 | The day had seemed longer than usual , Claudia thought as she let herself into her flat with a sigh of relief . |
| 12 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 13 | She was smiling to herself as she let herself into her kitchen by the back door . |
| 14 | He 's a thief , done time probably and well , ’ the waitress was looking more uneasy and going redder as she talked herself into more trouble , ‘ anyway here he is , ’ and she scuttled off . |
| 15 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 16 | Defries winced as she pulled herself to her feet . |
| 17 | Ace unfastened her safety harness and clutched the sides of her shaking couch as she pulled herself into a sitting position . |
| 18 | The atmosphere was slightly chilly but she scarcely seemed to notice it as she sat herself at Ward 's desk . |
| 19 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 20 | She was breathless , shivering with cold as she hid herself behind the curtains of the four-poster . |
| 21 | Gina gave an awkward laugh as she detached herself from his hold . |
| 22 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 23 | All the same , she was n't best pleased to be disturbed by a knock on her door as she wrapped herself in a towelling robe and hid her wet hair in a turban after she stepped out of the shower . |
| 24 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
| 25 | He stirred it silently , as she settled herself in a rocking-chair opposite to him . |
| 26 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
| 27 | There was a nice cool breeze wafting up from the river as she settled herself in the shelter of the huge willow tree , at the water 's edge . |
| 28 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
| 29 | ‘ Hallo , ’ said the Englishman as she helped herself to a mug of courtesy coffee at the desk . |
| 30 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |