Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed not to realize that she had come to regard herself as a prisoner ; a hostage perhaps , engaged in some frightening psychological duel . |
| 2 | He went out of the chapel and saw the Mother Superior , Sister Maria Palmer , mopping the floor , a menial task designed to remind herself of what she saw as her greatest weakness : the sin of pride . |
| 3 | The later Artemis of Ephesus was confidently expected to show herself in specially designed windows of appearance placed high in the temple 's pediment . |
| 4 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
| 5 | The only reason she had decided to put herself through all this with him was because she had a point to prove — a professional point . |
| 6 | Jane eyed her slim figure enviously , dreading the evening ahead , certain now that the old Frank Usher dress she had decided to squeeze herself into was going to look absurd . |
| 7 | ‘ My sister , now married , still lives there ; she has just written inviting herself to town for the Yuletide season . |
| 8 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 9 | If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective . |
| 10 | She had early had to turn herself into ‘ a pen-driving machine ’ to support the ever-increasing opulence of her lifestyle , and her adult fiction ( she wrote over twenty novels and innumerable short stories ) for the most part is facile and superficial . |
| 11 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 12 | And if , at first , she had had to remind herself to be careful not to be found out , deceit was becoming second nature to her . |
| 13 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |
| 14 | She 'd pictured giving herself to a man , but not until the right time and the right one came along . |
| 15 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 16 | All she had to do was steel herself to get through the forthcoming weeks until he returned to Hong Kong and she was left to immerse herself in this new job in peace , free of the distraction he constituted . |
| 17 | A previous landlady had tried to help herself to the orange juice to put in her gin . |
| 18 | Poor Mrs Sugden had her leg put in plaster , and was forced to bump herself down the stairs to get her husband 's meals — he had no intention of spoiling her . |
| 19 | She had meant to confine herself to the unwelcome proposal of marriage from Manfro Draper , but somehow she found herself telling her listeners all about her mother and father . |
| 20 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 21 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 22 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 23 | She had tried to disembarrass herself of her virginity , and had been certain , once she started ‘ going steady ’ with Sebastian , that this would be accomplished . |
| 24 | All these messages had been sent forth , and she had received none of them , had continued to consider herself in charge , in control , the prime mover . |
| 25 | The journey had been rough enough — she had lost the tip of one leg — but the effort it had taken to haul herself up the stairs in the cold hall to the bathroom door had left her almost dead with exhaustion . |
| 26 | When that argument had failed , she had tried taunting herself with infatuation — with having developed a schoolgirl-like crush that would n't outlast separation . |
| 27 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 28 | I think she had this lady had tried to drown herself in the quay before that . |
| 29 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 30 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |