Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she felt herself close to tears . |
| 2 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ I came … ’ and suddenly she found herself speaking words she had never thought , ‘ … |
| 4 | Suddenly she found herself under an intense media spotlight , enduring a 24-hour guard until she was 16 . |
| 5 | Suddenly she pushed herself away from him . |
| 6 | Her thoughts were twirling around and , however much she told herself that all that astrology stuff was nonsense , she could not prevent the doubts that had taken root and now refused to be urged away . |
| 7 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 8 | But however much she told herself that Luke Hunter 's matrimonial intentions were no business of hers , the feeling persisted . |
| 9 | She regretted she would not be seeing Urquhart again for only one reason , or so she told herself . |
| 10 | So she told herself . |
| 11 | She could have struggled , but it would n't have gained her anything ; he was too strong , or so she told herself . |
| 12 | But when she was drinking , she was ( or so she told herself ) perfectly conscious of all her thoughts and actions . |
| 13 | So she contented herself with giving the reporter what he wanted . |
| 14 | And after a week or so she found herself able to tease . |
| 15 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
| 16 | So she found herself , a young hopeful woman , with Coffin holding her hand , entering a world whose nastiness would never go away now . |
| 17 | So she allowed herself to return at last . |
| 18 | However , Walter Ash said it was a classic , and talked knowledgeably about the genre , and so she permitted herself to enjoy it . |
| 19 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 20 | But as it faded when they stopped , she wanted to repeat their coupling again , and drown again in the sweet rush of forgetfulness , until the time when she would bring it all to an end , or so she promised herself she would . |
| 21 | At two o'clock she seated herself at a window-table in a restaurant overlooking the Nile , near where the houseboat was moored . |
| 22 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 23 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 24 | Finally she nerved herself to go and have a drink . |
| 25 | Finally she shut herself in the attic room on Ella 's day off and sobbed until she ached in body and soul . |
| 26 | Downstairs she made herself a cup of coffee and carried it out onto the patio and drank it at the table , smoked a loose-rolled sweet Italian cigarette , and watched the coming of the dawn . |
| 27 | Already she hated herself , and he had n't even begun . |
| 28 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 29 | She had meant to confine herself to the unwelcome proposal of marriage from Manfro Draper , but somehow she found herself telling her listeners all about her mother and father . |
| 30 | She should be grateful , but somehow she found herself blaming him . |