Example sentences of "[verb] herself for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 2 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 3 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 4 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 5 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 6 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 7 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 8 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 9 | Kate was quite unable to offer any more resistance , in fact was so busy mentally castigating herself for the happy daydreams she had had while dancing with Ace that Dara had little need of her determination to take control of the rest of the evening . |
| 10 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 11 | Biddy blamed herself for the crisis . |
| 12 | At this point she burst into tears and blamed herself for the break-up of their relationship . |
| 13 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 14 | ‘ Please help me out of my problems , Mr Croydon , ’ she said softly , despising herself for the wheedling tone in her voice . |
| 15 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
| 16 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 17 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 18 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 19 | ‘ Sunday , then , ’ she said , and damned herself for the note of desperation in her voice . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , where do you want to start ? ’ she asked , bracing herself for the questions to come . |
| 21 | Her head swam ; she shut her eyes and pressed herself against the wall , fighting to steady herself for the return trip , struggling to contain an urge to vomit . |
| 22 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 23 | For some strange reason she could n't seem to relinquish her hold on the chain and braced herself for the wrench she was sure would follow when fitzAlan started towards the castle gates . |
| 24 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 25 | She tailed off , cursing herself for the slip . |
| 26 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 27 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |
| 28 | She almost offered herself for the fight , the surrogate , the already-victorious . |
| 29 | He dipped towards her , and she tried again to free herself , but the more she struggled , the more his fingers tightened their hold on the back of her neck , and she closed her eyes helplessly , steeling herself for the marauding touch of his mouth . |
| 30 | She rested her chin on her knees , preparing herself for the long wait . |