Example sentences of "[conj] she had [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 2 | Although she had moulded herself into the demure and restrained wife suitable to Stephen 's position , deep down she still possessed the wild spirits which had led her into Sir William Forster 's arms . |
| 3 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 4 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 5 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 6 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 7 | Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space . |
| 8 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
| 9 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 10 | As his palm cupped their heaviness , almost possessively , squeezing , caressing , make her blood leap , Lisa was suddenly overcome by a longing so intense that she had to restrain herself from falling on her knees and begging him to make love to her right there on the beach . |
| 11 | The memories persisted , until she had worked herself into a peevish bout of self-pity , which was not improved by her discovery when she reached home that Hank had not shovelled the snow off the front walk before leaving for school . |
| 12 | They watched patiently until she had impaled herself to the hilt on the huge dildo , and then they left . |
| 13 | It had little effect and she had to force herself into the driving seat and begin the return journey . |
| 14 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 15 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 16 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
| 17 | Fei Yen was looking down , the p'ip'a resting loosely against her breasts , her whole frame bent forward , as if she had emptied herself with the song . |
| 18 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |
| 19 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 20 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 21 | But more astute moves made even before she had established herself as a world star had guaranteed that she collected an above average share of the money her records were making . |
| 22 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |