Example sentences of "[prep] herself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 2 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 3 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 4 | But she was not taken out of herself by the sweeping cosmic changes of light and colour . |
| 5 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 6 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 7 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 9 | But a dull flush was creeping up her neck , and colouring her cheeks , and she felt furious with herself for the tell-tale signs of insecurity , for the ease with which the other girl had succeeded in humiliating her … |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't be ungrateful , ’ said Caroline , who was a bit above herself at the best of times . |
| 11 | Shirley Eaton looked fetching in her nurse 's uniform and a young probationer nurse was laying the tracks for a totally new profession for herself as the overemotional wallflower among the blossoming beauties of the hospital . |
| 12 | Everything she had tried to achieve for herself during the last four years would have to be tossed away , useless . |
| 13 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
| 14 | A year after our idle talk at Windrush , Judith Evelyn was in New York rehearsing her leading lines for Patrick Campbell 's great play ‘ Gaslight ’ , in which she starred on Broadway from December , 1941 ( the same week as Pearl Harbour ) for the next two years , and made a lasting name for herself in the American theatre . |
| 15 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 16 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 18 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 19 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 20 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 21 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 22 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 24 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 25 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 26 | So Rosalba dipped the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread , and laughed all by herself in the cool dark room . |