Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 2 | She saw Penry 's eyes on the silver brooch on her shoulder , knew he was remembering their time together on the island , and for a moment she was tempted to throw herself into his arms , to assure him that nothing mattered as long as he loved her , Leonora Fox , not Melanie . |
| 3 | True , she was going to leave herself with one very big headache with regard to her mortgage , but even that was not unsurmountable . |
| 4 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 5 | All she had to do was steel herself to get through the forthcoming weeks until he returned to Hong Kong and she was left to immerse herself in this new job in peace , free of the distraction he constituted . |
| 6 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 7 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |