Example sentences of "set herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glamorous food was a challenge she had set herself and won . |
| 2 | She knows from the start she will get the job and participates with passive fascination in the necessary motions ; the selection board chivalrously closes the door on the trap she has set herself . |
| 3 | She was watching him intently , as if to solve some riddle she had set herself . |
| 4 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 5 | When the taxi emerged from a tunnel beneath the East River amidst Manhattan 's towering walls of glass , she suddenly felt unequal to the task she had set herself . |
| 6 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 7 | With an empire of such a size , it was a difficult but not impossible task she had set herself . |
| 8 | However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing . |
| 9 | One way or the other , the task she had set herself was not going to be easy ! |
| 10 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |
| 11 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 12 | The job was important to her ; it had been the goal she had set herself after her father died so tragically ten years ago when she was seventeen . |
| 13 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |