Example sentences of "[verb] herself that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia was so annoyed at this that she could n't think where to begin but promised herself that Finn should suffer for his insolence . |
| 2 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 3 | She was meant to be persuading herself that life was worth living . |
| 4 | Loved him enough to steel herself to lie and excuse herself that afternoon , while she made her way to the Amtel clinic . |
| 5 | She had a tin of photographs which she would browse through , reminding herself that life had not always been so humdrum . |
| 6 | And what kind of whore offered herself that way ? |
| 7 | The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question . |
| 8 | But she would n't allow herself that deception . |
| 9 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 10 | Mrs Frizzell reminded herself that murder was not civilized . |
| 11 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 12 | Why had she lost herself that way ? |
| 13 | She wanted to tell herself that fitzAlan had taken her by surprise again , but she could not . |