Example sentences of "herself [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1945 Ramsey became its Secretary and because of her past experiences was able to throw herself wholeheartedly into the work . |
| 2 | Accepting enthusiastically the school 's principles of unsectarianism , coeducation up to the age of eleven , mixing middle- and artisan-class children , and making lessons short and pleasurable , she threw herself wholeheartedly into the teaching until forced to resign through ill health . |
| 3 | ‘ Mother of God in heaven , ’ Caterina muttered , ‘ I give up , ’ and she swung herself crossly onto the floor . |
| 4 | Oh , really , she told herself crossly , you 're becoming mawkish ! |
| 5 | Of course it 's his ! she told herself crossly , after a moment . |
| 6 | Rubbish , she told herself crossly , this was just the shyness resulting from that stupid dream . |
| 7 | He 's got a nerve to make such comments , Lucy told herself crossly . |
| 8 | She was n't normally afraid of thunderstorms , she chided herself crossly , as alarm pulsed through her body . |
| 9 | She uttered a muted cry of despair , and plucked herself furiously backward out of his grasp . |
| 10 | She spoke the word aloud as she turned off the water and began rubbing herself furiously with a towel . |
| 11 | Damn ! ’ she muttered to herself furiously . |
| 12 | He might even be passably attractive , Virginia told herself furiously , if it were n't for the villainous growth of stubble on his jaw . |
| 13 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , we both know why , of course ! ’ she answered herself furiously . |
| 15 | Take a grip on yourself , she told herself furiously . |
| 16 | I do n't respect Damian Flint , she told herself furiously , and I do n't admire him either . |
| 17 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 18 | She is the only pop star of any sex who has been shrewd enough to re-invent herself successfully at 18- months interval since David Bowie in the Seventies . |
| 19 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 20 | Relaxed and without the miserable depression of the previous few evenings , Julia pulled herself out of the water , rubbed herself vigorously with the hard , thin towel Annunziata had left there for her and went to dress . |
| 21 | She shook herself vigorously to throw off the fugginess in her head . |
| 22 | I hate that man , she told herself vigorously when she eventually forced herself to sit down and jigsaw the jumbled fragments of her emotions into place . |
| 23 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 24 | ‘ we 'll have a happy Christmas , ’ she told herself grimly , ‘ or perish in the attempt ! ’ |
| 25 | But she did n't have to , she reminded herself grimly . |
| 26 | But then there was nothing new about feeling like that , she reminded herself grimly . |
| 27 | ‘ Get out and see what you 've hit , Shae , ’ she told herself grimly . |
| 28 | You total , utter fool ! she told herself grimly , desperately trying to control her trembling figure . |
| 29 | You must be joking ! she told herself grimly , recalled to the present by the sound of the fax machine , once again clattering away in the other room . |
| 30 | It was only for the benefit of anyone who might be watching , she reminded herself grimly , but she could n't ignore the tremor of longing deep within her , a longing almost too strong to contain . |