Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 2 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 3 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 4 | She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household . |
| 5 | She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors . |
| 6 | This weekend she had finally braced herself to the course of obtruding the existence of Len into the house . |
| 7 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 8 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 9 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 10 | But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak . |
| 11 | In fact the 45-year-old lawyer , a fiercely independent career woman in her own right , has been so determined to secure victory for Clinton and an influential role for herself that she has almost re-invented herself in the process . |
| 12 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 13 | She had never convinced herself of the reality of her pregnancy , she had never done anything about it . |
| 14 | Her great-grandmother had never dressed herself without the help of a lady 's maid , but times had changed since then . |