Example sentences of "be [verb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she had been enjoying herself . |
| 2 | The selection provides ample evidence that since she retired for health reasons from her full-time post as curator of the DLI Museum in Durham , Nerys has obviously been enjoying herself enormously . |
| 3 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 4 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 5 | The last time she had woken from sleep it had been to find herself looking into the blue eyes of a dangerous enemy ; now the enemy was a friend . |
| 6 | It had been the question she had been pondering herself . |
| 7 | She 's been fretting herself to flinders , in case you should 've changed your mind . ’ |
| 8 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 9 | Every anchorite had known and suffered from these phantoms of the mind : how naïve she had been to imagine herself exempt . |
| 10 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 11 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 12 | She had been deluding herself that their lovemaking heralded a new direction to their relationship — that it presaged a beginning . |
| 13 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 14 | Lindsey knew she had been fooling herself in thinking she could remain indifferent . |
| 15 | His mother was entirely hoodwinked and , indeed , had she not known otherwise she would have been hoodwinked herself , Ashley thought despairingly . |
| 16 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 17 | To dwell on thoughts of Guido would be to drive herself mad . |
| 18 | The heroine of The Good Time Girl ( 1948 ) never seems to be enjoying herself . |
| 19 | In fact , despite the fact that Friday was always their busiest day , the girl seemed to be enjoying herself . |
| 20 | ‘ Mandy feels as though she would be prostituting herself to sell her story , ’ she said . |
| 21 | She remembered because she had seen her drive off and it was unusual for ‘ a señora of her quality ’ to be driving herself with no companion . |
| 22 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 23 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 24 | Although she could n't be seen herself , neither could she see the shed or , more importantly , the exact location of the sniper . |
| 25 | To reveal the truth would be to render herself still more vulnerable to him , and she could n't allow that to happen . |
| 26 | She was meant to be persuading herself that life was worth living . |
| 27 | If so , she must be kicking herself now ! |
| 28 | If she accepted this crazy proposal of his then she 'd be committing herself to a course of action that could be supremely dangerous to her . |
| 29 | This time it would be to stop herself from freezing , or starving , to death . |
| 30 | She seemed to be convincing herself . |