Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] herself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the satin had been recovered and she had found — after a painful , dry-mouthed fortnight of dosing herself with cheap gin and jumping down the cellar steps whenever Odette was not looking — that she was , miraculously , not pregnant , she had believed her luck to be on the turn . |
| 2 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 3 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 4 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 5 | The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season . |