Example sentences of "[v-ing] herself the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have stayed away , had dinner alone with Richard somewhere , saving herself the pleasure and the pain of being near Luke . |
| 2 | Giving herself the advantage of surprise , she ripped open the door . |
| 3 | Both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power on a platform of military rhetoric with Reagan calling Russia an evil empire and Mrs Thatcher earning herself the title of the Iron Lady . |
| 4 | Pretending that they desired only to rid the country of a tyrant , on 21 February 1437 they burst into the Blackfriars monastery in Perth in spite of the attempt by Catherine Douglas , one of the queen 's attendants , to bar the door by using her arm as a bolt , earning herself the name of Kate-Bar-the-Door . |
| 5 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |