Example sentences of "[verb] herself [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time .
2 ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder .
3 From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it .
4 Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden .
5 Having accepted that she must wear it , Alexandra then set herself to dress for the pleasure of the Rectory children , throwing good taste to the winds and insisting upon hanging herself with all that glittered from the jewel box Aunt Emily had left her , its rose suede depths heaped with treasures from Richard Talbot .
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