Example sentences of "[conj] she was [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 2 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 3 | Her decision was extremely painful , for Beatrice believed ( as it happened incorrectly ) that she was committing herself to a celibate life for ever : |
| 4 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 5 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 6 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |