Example sentences of "[prep] herself [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually her eyes drooped , her last conscious thought being of herself at Lucenzo 's feet , begging for his mercy while his triumphant face came closer and closer … |
| 2 | She was garnering awards from Japan to Israel and Ireland , embarking on a movie career that seemed certain to lead to Hollywood stardom — she had even achieved the final confirmation of her status as a member of the élite band entitled to call themselves superstars , a wax image of herself at Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 3 | To see yourself in this way is a representation of the child 's move into historical time , one of the places where vision establishes the child 's understanding of herself as part of the world . |
| 4 | The USSR 's commitment to Communism 's expansion and triumph seems to co-exist with a psychology of threat and a view of herself as victim . |
| 5 | For an unbalanced moment she thought it might be Gordon Hodge , pursuing her to see that she would not come back , and make a nuisance of herself to Edward . |
| 6 | She realised that for George and Elizabeth to take such a firm line , Sarah must have made more of a nuisance of herself to George than she herself had noticed . |
| 7 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 8 | She wanted to tell him that he never would either , but her mind was awhirl with images of herself in Nathan 's arms , on the soft padded cotton sleeping-bag , and she could n't force the words out . |
| 9 | Dame Peggy Ashcroft , who died last June , aged 83 , left a portrait of herself in Venice by Walter Sickert to the Tate Gallery in her £900,000 will published yesterday . |
| 10 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 11 | Search as she might , Tamar could find nothing of herself in Hilary . |
| 12 | She disliked the photograph of herself in shorts , which she thought made her look fat ; in fact she looked remarkably fit for a fifty-two-year-old . |
| 13 | He had a knack of making her feel like that , she realised — somehow vulnerable , excessively aware of herself in relation to him . |
| 14 | She may experience a crisis of disbelief in her religious faith , or direct her anger towards the medical or nursing staff who cared for her husband , for failing to save his life ; or she may blame family or friends and have feelings of guilt and anger against herself for things that were done or not done during his lifetime . |
| 15 | Annie felt angry with herself for dwelling on thoughts of the young man over the weekend . |
| 16 | Jezrael-Ayesha laughed when they did , their feelings carrying her above herself on clouds of alcoholic freedom . |
| 17 | But now , with the end of a gruelling theatre tour in sight , she 's making a name for herself on stage . |
| 18 | In Susanna Jennens Leapor would have found a woman able to fend for herself in adversity . |
| 19 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 20 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 21 | She had n't felt this unsettled about herself for years ! |
| 22 | She could remember the purchase of each , standing about herself in Dunne 's or Burton 's , going from one branch to another . |
| 23 | She shouted inside herself to Thérèse : I do n't want you to be my sister either so there , see if I care . |
| 24 | Somehow Katherine had to learn to make a space in herself for Sylvie . |
| 25 | I 've a fair idea , ’ and here he smiled a benign leer which long ago Mary had learned to repulse but still — unawares — could cause her to coil up in herself in shame , ‘ they 've come here express to see the Beauty . ’ |
| 26 | Topaz stamped her foot , beside herself with fury as she tried to defend the dead woman whose legacy she had to bear . |
| 27 | Rachel shouted , beside herself with fury . |
| 28 | Bella drew her breath in sharply , almost beside herself with rage . |
| 29 | ‘ Love had nothing to do with it ! ’ shrieked Isabel , almost beside herself with rage and shame . |
| 30 | Ursula must be beside herself with worry . ’ |