Example sentences of "[verb] herself to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had drilled herself to super-efficiency and had become one of the very highly paid temps the advertisements talk about , because there seemed little point in such jobs unless they were extravagantly rewarded . |
| 2 | And the fact that she wanted nothing more than to entrust herself to fitzAlan 's protection made her nervousness all the more acute . |
| 3 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 4 | The first of fifteen novels appeared in 1894 ( her early fiction sported the pseudonym of C. E. Raimond ) and she retired from the stage in 1897 and devoted herself to writing . |
| 5 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 6 | Lindsey felt the faint colour tinge her cheeks as she helped herself to coffee she did n't really want . |
| 7 | Ruth pulled out a wicker chair from the breakfast table and sat down and helped herself to coffee . |
| 8 | She saw him again briefly as she helped herself to food . |
| 9 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 10 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 11 | She drove herself to work and could still see nothing else for it . |
| 12 | EXPECTANT mum Helen Tibbett drove herself to hospital to give birth to her daughter but her husband went by ambulance . |
| 13 | On her return , she told Jack she must see his leader , so he sent one of the lads with the message , and the answer came back that Ariel could present herself to Kit . |
| 14 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 15 | She had worn herself to death . |
| 16 | ‘ Personally I think it 's overrated , ’ Jill laughed as they moved along the table , Lindsey helping herself to food she did n't really want . |
| 17 | Sold herself to death that girl wo n't she ? |
| 18 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 19 | Which was that Ellen had sworn herself to celibacy while she worked as a cook , a decision that was to me as eccentric as it was both incomprehensible and frustrating . |
| 20 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 21 | So far , she 'd done the absolute minimum necessary to allow herself to camp in the house overnight . |
| 22 | Ruth treated herself to sugar in the coffee . |
| 23 | ‘ My sister , now married , still lives there ; she has just written inviting herself to town for the Yuletide season . |
| 24 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 25 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |
| 26 | Her feet kept on blundering along through the darkness and a stitch stabbed at her side but she blinded herself to exhaustion and ran . |
| 27 | Stumbling with weariness , she forced herself to stagger towards Ember . |
| 28 | If they sent an ambulance she supposed she would get into it , but if they did not , then she would leave it because she did not have the energy to take herself to hospital . |
| 29 | He blamed his mother , an alcoholic beauty who drank herself to death in 1964 , and who , he said , raised her sons with such coldness that Seth 's brother leaped to his death off the Oakland Bay Bridge . |
| 30 | Whereupon , declaring that no less precious food should thereafter pass her lips , the lady had , variously , starved herself to death or flung herself from the window , in which case her blood had forever coloured the ruddy rocks of Roussillon . |