Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 2 | The big machines are only powered by the ratepayers ' money , and that woman who threatened to tie herself to a willow tree represents thousands upon thousands of ratepayers who share her ( and Constable 's ) convictions about the essential nature of a river . |
| 3 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 4 | He poured half a glass of neat Scotch , raised it to Leonora who had seated herself in an arm chair , erect and elegant . |
| 5 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 6 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 7 | She sharply told Tilda , who had planted herself in a rocking-chair put out on the pavement , that she must come into the shop and help her speak to the man . |
| 8 | She made a move to pass him and join Marguerite , who had established herself in the back seat , but his arm barred her way . |