Example sentences of "[v-ing] herself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After satisfying herself to that end , she rose presently to give them a chance to be together , and to allow Bishop Jon to awaken without embarrassment . |
| 2 | All at once , Melanie was back home and swathing herself in diaphanous veiling before a mirror . |
| 3 | I understand he 's ill. , Seating herself on one of the wooden chairs , she drew off her fine kid gloves and placed them on the table . |
| 4 | Seating herself in solitary splendour , avoiding the accusing glances of his ancestors , she thankfully started on the thick vegetable soup , which , despite Feargal 's derogatory remarks about Mary and Rose , was excellent . |
| 5 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 6 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 7 | She was not going to start explaining herself to this arrogant Spaniard . |
| 8 | She was saving herself for Elder Seth . |
| 9 | But Fatima was laughing and loving herself with crossed arms . |
| 10 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 11 | She gets a certain amount of amusement from describing herself in this way , but the verbal presentation of self has a serious purpose : |
| 12 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 13 | Why was she subjecting herself to this penal state of solitary confinement ? |
| 14 | She stood there and stared at herself , seeing herself from that unexpected angle , as though she were another person , as though she were a dim white and blue statue on a tall pillar , a wet statue , a statue in water , a Venus rising from the sea , with veined white marble globes for breasts . |
| 15 | Having accepted that she must wear it , Alexandra then set herself to dress for the pleasure of the Rectory children , throwing good taste to the winds and insisting upon hanging herself with all that glittered from the jewel box Aunt Emily had left her , its rose suede depths heaped with treasures from Richard Talbot . |
| 16 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 17 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 18 | She 's only thinking of your good , ’ said Iris , helping herself to apricot jam . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it 's a scream , ’ Ruth stated jauntily , helping herself to more juice , ‘ our lovers out most of the night , with each other . |
| 20 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 21 | In ways Jaq did not understand she was studying and altering and neutralizing the dissolving contents of her stomach , immunizing herself to those through the mediation of the Polymorphine . |
| 22 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Elise Fox , happily unmarried at thirty-two , was rarely without an escort , but never showed the least sign of tying herself to one man for good . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ Hortensia said , ‘ a few days later , during prayers , the Trunchbull suddenly started scratching herself like mad down below . |
| 26 | At breakfast she would be persistently bright and chirpy , deliberately steeling herself against all the things that Marie did that irritated her . |
| 27 | She closed her eyes , steeling herself against another flare of irritation . |
| 28 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 29 | Finding herself in severe financial straits she went along to the appropriate authority to ask for money to buy food for her children . |
| 30 | Suddenly finding herself in this strange dark place she naturally tried to retreat from it and all the farmer did was guide her . |