Example sentences of "[verb] herself the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |
| 2 | KAY BLAIR was recently shocked to find herself the recipient of high quality service |
| 3 | The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners . |
| 4 | Mr Spencer told the jury : ‘ For a period of two years , from about the age of 13 onwards , the girl found herself the target of sexual and physical abuse from her stepfather . |
| 5 | She should have stayed away , had dinner alone with Richard somewhere , saving herself the pleasure and the pain of being near Luke . |
| 6 | To vanish and give herself the chance to rebuild her life . |
| 7 | She allowed herself the luxury of screaming , and yelped as each stroke ignited a searing throb in her outraged fundament . |
| 8 | Just for a moment Merrill allowed herself the luxury of imagination . |
| 9 | She allowed herself the luxury of remembering the way he had looked at her just now , thought about how she had felt . |
| 10 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 11 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 12 | She popped a toast soldier into her own mouth to give herself the strength to deal with her father . |
| 13 | A bluff she had perpetrated mainly on herself to give herself the strength to go on living . |
| 14 | Isabel had told her , unable to deny herself the relief of letting the truth out at last . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the welcome opportunity to see the work of this distinguished artist , I was left with the depressing realisation that when one compares the contribution of the women artists with that of the men one sees that the women artist has had to deny herself the luxury of exploring and depicting those ‘ strange developments ’ that exploit humour as well as horror , and which ultimately liberate artist and viewer alike . |
| 16 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 17 | Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted . |
| 18 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 19 | Giving herself the advantage of surprise , she ripped open the door . |
| 20 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 21 | Frere was unaware of it but his sister-in-law had spared herself the burden of a second letter . |
| 22 | Debbie Raymond who called herself the Princess of Porn was one of Britain 's richest women and had been groomed to take over her father 's £80m-a-year business . |
| 23 | When the woman put her hand up to protect herself the man grabbed two rings off her fingers but they were later recovered in the car . |
| 24 | No sooner had she asked herself the question than she realized the folly of it — and of the fees she had already demanded . |
| 25 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 26 | Refusing to allow herself the indulgence of looking in the mirror and repairing her make-up , she walked slowly back down the hall and opened the door again with trembling hands . |
| 27 | Erm , well C commands roughly it 's just a noun phrase , which can endow the pronoun with a reference or an interpretation , so if Florence saw herself Florence is a noun phrase and gives herself the reference Florence . |
| 28 | She gave herself the pleasure of recalling Henry Yaxlee and his calm sea-like presence . |
| 29 | In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral . |
| 30 | She gave herself the morning off and left the hacienda . |