Example sentences of "have [verb] herself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 2 | In my judgment she remains capable as she has demonstrated herself to be capable of renouncing the tenets of the faith to suit her own chosen way of life . |
| 3 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 4 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 5 | Mrs Tholen , who went on to specialise in theatre work , has proved herself to be the gardener of the family despite her husband 's success with carnations carefully nurturing the acre of gardens in which their four-bedroomed detached home is set . |
| 6 | bakery student , Pound Lane has proved herself to be an outstanding baker . |
| 7 | Sally-Ann , unlike Rosemary , finds it a struggle and bitterly hurtful to dredge up her dreadful past — like Rosemary she has believed herself to be a doormat in society ; like Rosemary she has not known a childhood . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're hardly a teenager who has to explain herself to her mother . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 10 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 11 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 12 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 13 | She 'd committed herself to God 's ways , and to God 's people , and God directs her , and she comes to the field of Boaz And there was none more able to meet her need . |
| 14 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 15 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 16 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 19 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 20 | Having given herself to him , she was his . |
| 21 | It seemed to Harriet that Liza must have unburdened herself to Dr Forman rather than her own mother and somehow this increased her sense of resentment . |
| 22 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 23 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 24 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 25 | But if I am to believe that , when the Minister replies to the debate she will have to commit herself to two very simple propositions : first , that the Government will institute a full review of student financial support as a matter of urgency ; secondly , that they will commit themselves to restoring to all students the housing benefit and income support that the Government have taken away from them . |
| 26 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 27 | 1900 is the year Walker achieved widespread recognition with ‘ Angela ’ and seems to have married herself to her artistic ambition from then on . |
| 28 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 29 | Isabelle had loved another man — had given herself to him with disastrous consequences — and here was Sabine , the living proof , the cuckoo in the conventional Russell family nest . |
| 30 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |