Example sentences of "[vb -s] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint defends herself by going on the attack . |
| 2 | Dominique uncoils herself from the driving seat and extracts herself elegantly . |
| 3 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 4 | Ruth 's had the usual odd spills and scrapes herself , but never anything very bloody . |
| 5 | She studies herself ; I study her back . |
| 6 | However she dresses herself , that 's what she becomes . |
| 7 | Her simple cosmetic operations completed , she dresses herself in opaque green tights , a wide brown tweed skirt and a thick sweater loosely knitted in muted shades of orange , green and brown . |
| 8 | For it is an essential part of the pattern that the complete goddess manifests herself in two antithetical ways — as the Venus of sexual love and the Diana of virginity . |
| 9 | It could also turn the spotlight unfavourably on the assertive Mrs Clinton , who has herself become a ‘ campaign issue ’ . |
| 10 | The Aussie singer , who has been accused of copying Madonna herself , has herself been accused of copying Madonna , has hit out at the American superstar . |
| 11 | Almost one might feel that she has herself directed matters in miraculous fashion , protecting herself and her devotees even among such perils . ’ |
| 12 | She only has herself to talk to and all she is able to say is ‘ I would that I were dead . ’ |
| 13 | Would-be teacher learns to count her blessings AFTER five months teaching English to handicapped children in Poland , a Stokesley teenager has herself learned a valuable lesson to count her blessings . |
| 14 | She heads an executive committee of about 20 and has herself instigated the Westminster meeting , which she describes as ‘ my baby ’ . |
| 15 | As she collected up the plates and covers herself and went without Miss Vine 's twelve p , the face of Timothy Gedge appeared in her mind , causing her to feel sick in the stomach . |
| 16 | I despised myself anyway , haunted by things as superficial as a way of moving , a combination of colour and shape , an asymmetrical smile , the chance attributes of someone who holds herself so cheap she 'll squander herself on a man as truly valueless as Florian Jones , and ignore both his marriage and his other affairs . |
| 17 | Mummy blames herself for what happened . |
| 18 | ‘ She blames herself for your father 's death . |
| 19 | It will be seen that all three of these matters must have a special importance when the transaction in question is one of suretyship and the wife without any recompense , except the advantage of her husband , saddles herself or her separate property with a liability for his debt or debts . |
| 20 | Noticing that her hands are shaking and knowing that he has noticed she forces herself to act cool , not daring for the moment to analyse her disquiet lest she is incapable of handling the reason . |
| 21 | A group of women can take in another who is thoroughly miserable , and if she allows herself to join in , she can find herself much restored by the general strength there . |
| 22 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 23 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 24 | A cup of tea may be her usual tipple , but on such a special day , Nancy allows herself a drop of something a little bit stronger . |
| 25 | She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children . |
| 26 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 27 | As she says herself , this is one lady born to be centre stage . |
| 28 | Not that that 's unreasonable in itself but it never seems to have bothered her before since she says herself she did n't normally stay the night , even if they 'd been out late . ’ |
| 29 | She says herself she 's an artist 's moll or she was . ’ |
| 30 | She took erm stupidly erm , she says herself she booked erm the Friday and erm , the Monday off |