Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family .
2 In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her .
3 When a woman has finished her menstrual period and has counted seven days when no fresh bleeding has been apparent , she must immerse herself in a mikva before sexual relations with her husband can resume .
4 I despised myself anyway , haunted by things as superficial as a way of moving , a combination of colour and shape , an asymmetrical smile , the chance attributes of someone who holds herself so cheap she 'll squander herself on a man as truly valueless as Florian Jones , and ignore both his marriage and his other affairs .
5 She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region .
6 It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position .
7 Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him .
8 She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate .
9 She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure .
10 On top of that she will find herself in a different group for pensions and income tax .
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