Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old nurse hanged herself in one of the barns . |
| 2 | His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way . |
| 3 | She , who had always pulled the strings , to have found herself in this position . |
| 4 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 5 | She wore enormous shapeless skirts which looked as if they were made from old curtains or bedspreads , and baggy sweatshirts which she had dyed herself in dingy shades of rust , snot-green and pale mouldy purple . |
| 6 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 7 | She had disgraced herself in public , which was bad enough . |