Example sentences of "[vb infin] herself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never again would she land herself in such a mess . |
| 2 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 3 | A woman can present herself in various roles : as a ‘ mother figure ’ , or as a child appealing to her husband 's paternal instinct . |
| 4 | Sandra used all the recommended beauty products , but she did n't see herself in those pictures . |
| 5 | It seems a good thing that she should occupy herself with these children next door . |
| 6 | She did n't understand herself at all ! |
| 7 | It was hoped that Japan could re-establish herself to some extent in the islands of Habomai and Shikotan while the Kurils should come under a UN mandate . |
| 8 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 9 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 10 | By this time Dinah was exhausted and desperate ; she could not drag herself round any more managers ’ offices today , they would look at her and see a bedraggled young woman who must be as bad as the papers said . |
| 11 | In cichlids this seems to pose no particular problem , perhaps because the average female cichlid will content herself with any mate if an appropriate one is not available . |
| 12 | Besides being the sun 's foster-mother , Mokosh could foretell the future , and she could change herself into any form she pleased , bird or fish or snake of the swamp . |
| 13 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |
| 14 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 15 | She is a strong-minded woman who brooks no interference in her department : on the other hand , she does not involve herself in other people 's . |
| 16 | Day by day her bewilderment increased , and , such was the fascination exercised upon the mind by these anarchic powers , she might find herself at any step allured in folly , and dizzily unaware of her plight . |
| 17 | Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all , might find herself in genuine distress . |
| 18 | If somebody had told her she 'd find herself in this same dubious position all over again , even one hour ago , she would have laughed right in their face . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , she could n't imagine herself in any form of intimacy with her employer , much as she liked him . |
| 20 | There would be more photos , but they would be taken as the cruiser pulled away , and she need n't concern herself about those . |