Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 2 | So she had downgraded herself , attempting by each step to lose herself in the back-streets of the cities she went to . |
| 3 | ( Although she had enjoyed herself , Miss Weeton apparently never wrote a single letter to her god-daughter , though she was a tremendous letter-writer . |
| 4 | Had she not been so downhearted Ruth would have enjoyed herself . |
| 5 | She had not enjoyed herself so much in all her married life . |
| 6 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 7 | She 'd enjoyed herself tonight , had n't she ? |
| 8 | She 's really enjoyed herself because tipple . |
| 9 | Miss Lodsworth , who organized the flower rota , had excelled herself . |
| 10 | Suffering pensioner hanged herself |
| 11 | A TRAGIC pensioner hanged herself because she could no longer cope with the pain of her illness , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 13 | An old nurse hanged herself in one of the barns . |
| 14 | She 'd hanged herself over pressure of work and the fact she was terrified about her first essay . |
| 15 | Now to see how Mrs Hatton had occupied herself during that particular week . |
| 16 | She had drilled herself to super-efficiency and had become one of the very highly paid temps the advertisements talk about , because there seemed little point in such jobs unless they were extravagantly rewarded . |
| 17 | She had booked herself a bed at a YWCA hostel for the time being . |
| 18 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 19 | When she had booked herself a room the clerk had suggested taking either a water-taxi or a vaporetto to the hotel . |
| 20 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 21 | She 's forgotten herself ; has used her injured arm . |
| 22 | Somehow , she had let herself get mixed up . |
| 23 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 24 | She 's a young girl who really has her feet planted on the ground and I do n't believe she has let herself be carried away by her success . |
| 25 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 26 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 27 | She always would have liked to have let herself be happy . |
| 28 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 29 | A friend who had a key let herself in and called upstairs , but I did n't want anyone to come into the bedroom because they might catch whatever it was I had . |
| 30 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |