31.   She bent to pick up broken shards of china, gritting her teeth as her head protested.

32.   She let herself down gingerly into the hot water, gritting her teeth as various bruises stung as they came in contact with the heat.

33.   GRIT your teeth and bolt the door -- the latest novel from Iain Banks is about to hit the bookshops.

34.   Just grit your teeth and get things straight.

35.   Louise, gritting her teeth against saying everything she wanted to say, spent part of the time making tea in the terrible little lean-to.

36.   Even so, if you grit your teeth and sweat it out, most of them do emerge as reasonable human beings.

37.   Gritted our teeth and made it through the weekend.

38.   And when she grits her teeth and flares her nostrils with seething anger, Light overacts to the point of gut-busting laughability.

39.   As he talked in a store office about his investments, he gripped the edge of his seat and gritted his teeth.

40.   As soon as Lopez swung, Trachsel gritted his teeth and shook his fist.