Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 2 | His appointment as a Bishop , was in the immediate aftermath of the closing of the Second Vatican Council ; which was to pose new challenges to the whole Church as she sought to renew herself under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 4 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 5 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 6 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 7 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 8 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 9 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 10 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 11 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 12 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 13 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 14 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 15 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 16 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 17 | The thoughtful echo rang in her ears long after she 'd buried herself beneath the bed cover in the privacy of her room , and yearned for the oblivion of sleep . |
| 18 | With a slight change of posture — a lift of the head , a straightening of the already straight back , that little proud look — she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind . |
| 19 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 20 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 21 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 22 | She started to tap herself on the forehead . |
| 23 | The tour finished in the kitchen and she started to busy herself around the cooker . |
| 24 | With her hand on the iron banister , she started to pull herself towards the rooftops . |
| 25 | She decided to treat herself to a fig from the bowl and found its skin still damp , as though it had been recently washed . |
| 26 | How could she have got herself into a mess like this ? |
| 27 | She kept reminding herself of the stories about him in the gossip columns , of his reputation as a womaniser . |
| 28 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 29 | If she wishes to attach herself to the scare , I am delighted . |
| 30 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |