Example sentences of "[prep] herself [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each suburban wife , as she made the beds , shopped for groceries , ate peanut-butter sandwiches with her children , chauffeured Cubs and Brownies , lay beside her husband at night , was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question , ‘ Is this all ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | By 1919 Japan had secured for herself a formal position as one of the world 's most powerful nations . |
| 3 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 4 | Leila closed her eyes , visualising for herself the pleasant warmth of Ari 's fantasy world . |
| 5 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 6 | She went into the darkness of that experience , found within herself a healing power which she allied with alternative therapies and is now fully cured . |
| 7 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 8 | She said the name to herself a few times , enjoying the feeling it created . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 10 | At Rennes , on 27 July 1947 , the rassembleur turned cold warrior : " Soviet Russia is using coercion to organize around herself a formidable grouping of states … |