Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that first shock of entry she had offered herself without shame , but Marc had slowed , holding her wildness in check , and with a hoarse , inquisitorial , ‘ Sarella ? ’ had tried to hold them back upon their course . |
| 2 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 5 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 6 | After her husband 's death she had borne herself with a mournful dignity which had done her standing no harm , and taken the funeral food to the tomb herself with a regularity and devotion which would have shamed women lamenting better-loved partners . |
| 7 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 8 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Millie 's mistress , frustrated at being parted from the family she had devoted herself to rearing and longing for the freedom to travel and relax , stayed loyal to her husband 's ambitions . |