Example sentences of "have [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioned in May of 1986 , this vessel has distinguished herself in both the U.S. and European cruising circuits . |
| 2 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 3 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 4 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 5 | She has positioned herself behind her desk , and will not meet my eyes . |
| 6 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 7 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 8 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 9 | However , the reader who has to look herself for these useful references will find much else to inform and entertain . |
| 10 | Oh , Mum , what a mess your daughter has got herself into , and all because of her silly pride , her determination to lash out first before anyone could lash back ! |
| 11 | Isabella Rosellini has armed herself with a fizzing S and V — ve vill , vo n't we ? |
| 12 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 13 | She was going to sell herself — she has sold herself by now — and would have sold me — for supper . |
| 14 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 15 | She came home early from the office , and she has locked herself in her room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | bakery student , Pound Lane has proved herself to be an outstanding baker . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the GDR , with a 1982 debt service ratio of 63 per cent faces an uphill struggle , Poland , with a debt service ratio of 191 per cent has put herself beyond the point of return as an OECD trading partner for at least a decade . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're hardly a teenager who has to explain herself to her mother . ’ |
| 24 | It is a story with which all machine knitters are very familiar and although there are no magic wands there are many ways out of the hole that she feels she has dug herself into . |
| 25 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 26 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 27 | There is no escape from the Baglady 's ghastly tale of a ruined life until she has released herself by at last telling her story . |
| 28 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |