Example sentences of "[verb] herself [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to see how Mrs Hatton had occupied herself during that particular week . |
| 2 | After satisfying herself to that end , she rose presently to give them a chance to be together , and to allow Bishop Jon to awaken without embarrassment . |
| 3 | She had resigned herself to that . |
| 4 | And Lisa hated herself for that . |
| 5 | She hated herself for that , bringing herself down to a spiteful , vengeful , ‘ woman scorned ’ level . |
| 6 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 7 | She stood there and stared at herself , seeing herself from that unexpected angle , as though she were another person , as though she were a dim white and blue statue on a tall pillar , a wet statue , a statue in water , a Venus rising from the sea , with veined white marble globes for breasts . |
| 8 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 9 | She had never pictured herself like that before . |
| 10 | Almost as though to punish herself for that foolishness , she forced herself to look him in the eye and enquire , ‘ So , how is Janice enjoying married life ? ’ |
| 11 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 12 | Donna tried to convince herself of that as she walked slowly around the ruins of Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 13 | She 's throwing herself at that man , making a complete fool of herself . |
| 14 | Lisa despised herself for that treacherous reaction . |
| 15 | He was just marrying her out of ambition — how many more times did she have to remind herself of that ? |
| 16 | She pushed against his arms in an attempt at escape , hating herself in that moment as much as him , for the way her body so easily betrayed her . |