Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 2 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 3 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 4 | She 'd pictured giving herself to a man , but not until the right time and the right one came along . |
| 5 | She 'd managed to psych herself into just the proper frame of mind for a confrontation , but there was no guarantee that it would last . |
| 6 | The only reason she had decided to put herself through all this with him was because she had a point to prove — a professional point . |
| 7 | Jane eyed her slim figure enviously , dreading the evening ahead , certain now that the old Frank Usher dress she had decided to squeeze herself into was going to look absurd . |
| 8 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 9 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 10 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |
| 11 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She seemed not to realize that she had come to regard herself as a prisoner ; a hostage perhaps , engaged in some frightening psychological duel . |
| 14 | When that argument had failed , she had tried taunting herself with infatuation — with having developed a schoolgirl-like crush that would n't outlast separation . |
| 15 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 16 | She had tried to disembarrass herself of her virginity , and had been certain , once she started ‘ going steady ’ with Sebastian , that this would be accomplished . |
| 17 | She had meant to confine herself to the unwelcome proposal of marriage from Manfro Draper , but somehow she found herself telling her listeners all about her mother and father . |
| 18 | She had managed to squeeze herself into such a small space in the saddle that there was practically room left for two men . |