Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 2 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 3 | ANN CLWYD is a tough Parliamentary performer who has managed to force herself to the forefront of public attention despite holding the relatively low-profile portfolio of overseas development and cooperation in Labour 's Shadow Cabinet . |
| 4 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 5 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 6 | I think she had this lady had tried to drown herself in the quay before that . |
| 7 | She seemed not to realize that she had come to regard herself as a prisoner ; a hostage perhaps , engaged in some frightening psychological duel . |
| 8 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 9 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 10 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |
| 11 | The journey had been rough enough — she had lost the tip of one leg — but the effort it had taken to haul herself up the stairs in the cold hall to the bathroom door had left her almost dead with exhaustion . |
| 12 | A previous landlady had tried to help herself to the orange juice to put in her gin . |
| 13 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 14 | She had meant to confine herself to the unwelcome proposal of marriage from Manfro Draper , but somehow she found herself telling her listeners all about her mother and father . |
| 15 | Josie reflected on how easily , with just a change of clothes and a few amateur touches , Lucy had managed to transform herself into a resurrected image of her own sister . |