Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His thick blond hair , deep blue eyes and effortless charm had probably captivated the hearts of a host of women that evening , but as Becky assumed that every girl received exactly the same treatment , she avoided allowing herself to be flattered by him . |
| 2 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 3 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 4 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 5 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 6 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 7 | Commissioned in May of 1986 , this vessel has distinguished herself in both the U.S. and European cruising circuits . |
| 8 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 9 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 10 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 11 | Stunned but ineffectual , she yelled in righteous rage and tried to pull herself to her feet , wanting nothing else but to throw herself at Duvall as … |
| 12 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 13 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 14 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 15 | She has positioned herself behind her desk , and will not meet my eyes . |
| 16 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 17 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 18 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 19 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 20 | However , the reader who has to look herself for these useful references will find much else to inform and entertain . |
| 21 | Oh , Mum , what a mess your daughter has got herself into , and all because of her silly pride , her determination to lash out first before anyone could lash back ! |
| 22 | Isabella Rosellini has armed herself with a fizzing S and V — ve vill , vo n't we ? |
| 23 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 24 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 25 | She was going to sell herself — she has sold herself by now — and would have sold me — for supper . |
| 26 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 27 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 28 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 29 | She came home early from the office , and she has locked herself in her room . |
| 30 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |