Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother , also dead , was really German , but she had called herself Austrian in an impulse of cowardice that Stephen rather cherished her for . |
| 2 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 3 | He was so surprised that he let her go , as if she had cut herself free of him . |
| 4 | Gradually , miraculously , she had found herself free of her past . |
| 5 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 6 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 7 | But she had thought herself equal to it . |
| 8 | Yet , at the same time she knew she had laid herself open for such a reply . |
| 9 | Her heart sank as she realized what she had laid herself open to . |