Example sentences of "[verb] herself [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 2 | She was not going to start explaining herself to this arrogant Spaniard . |
| 3 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 4 | His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way . |
| 5 | All she had to do was steel herself to get through the forthcoming weeks until he returned to Hong Kong and she was left to immerse herself in this new job in peace , free of the distraction he constituted . |
| 6 | She took personal charge of the cellars and , well aware of the problem posed by the obstinate particles of sediment which refused to fall easily , spent night and day trying to rid herself of this nuisance . |
| 7 | She longed to rid herself of this infuriating tiredness and start exploring everything … |
| 8 | How had my mother transformed herself into this dower-house chatelaine ? |
| 9 | She gets a certain amount of amusement from describing herself in this way , but the verbal presentation of self has a serious purpose : |
| 10 | Another part of Phoebe hated herself for this cynical internal grin , because these were her friends and she was indubitably one of them , and could not imagine being otherwise . |
| 11 | Her hands were actually shaking and she would not have believed she could have got herself into this sort of state so quickly . |
| 12 | She would need to be a masochist to put herself through this kind of torment , seeing him every day , working with him , knowing it could never lead anywhere . |
| 13 | Why was she subjecting herself to this penal state of solitary confinement ? |
| 14 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 15 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 16 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 17 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 18 | She , who had always pulled the strings , to have found herself in this position . |
| 19 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 20 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 21 | But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever . |
| 22 | She had to keep inventing ruses to protect herself against this resident ratpack , one of which was perpetual creativity through weaving a tapestry which she never finished . |
| 23 | He sounded as if he was about to simply replace the phone and go , and Jenna had steeled herself for this . |
| 24 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |
| 25 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 26 | Suddenly finding herself in this strange dark place she naturally tried to retreat from it and all the farmer did was guide her . |
| 27 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |
| 28 | She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics . |
| 29 | Indeed she did , for having sacrificed herself for this damnable dress material it was no more than commonsense to make certain that no part of it had been damaged or soiled , that she could go to Miss Dallam presently , when she found the strength to get up out of this bed and tidy her hair and her cuts and bruises , as if absolutely nothing had occurred . |
| 30 | She had delivered herself of this statement to Inspector Paul Lane , who was gently triumphant at what he had got . |