Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I could almost feel sorry for her , she had gotten herself into such a false position .
2 Employing only a cool curiosity , she had defended herself from sentimental pretences .
3 From the age of 22 she had cut herself on many occasions .
4 She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own .
5 She wore enormous shapeless skirts which looked as if they were made from old curtains or bedspreads , and baggy sweatshirts which she had dyed herself in dingy shades of rust , snot-green and pale mouldy purple .
6 She had resigned herself to that .
7 She had delivered herself of this statement to Inspector Paul Lane , who was gently triumphant at what he had got .
8 She had disgraced herself in public , which was bad enough .
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