Example sentences of "she [vb -s] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 2 | I expect she kicks herself for giving him those special facilities now , because it 's sure to be one of those jaw-breaking pieces of unreadability Americans produce . |
| 3 | You ca n't chat with someone who is senile , and when she wets herself I shout at her as much as she once shouted at me . ’ |
| 4 | she wets herself |
| 5 | She wo n't tell us the truth , but I know it , she wets herself , she does n't want it to show on the chairs in school |
| 6 | His sister Caroline was the Rat — ‘ your dear rat ’ , ‘ your faithful rat ’ she signs herself ; ‘ little rat ’ , ‘ Ah , rat , good rat , old rat ’ , ‘ old rat , naughty old rat , good rat , poor old rat ’ he addresses her — but Gustave was the Bear . |
| 7 | I do n't very often get the better of Hinkle , but her memory is one thing she prides herself on . |
| 8 | She allies herself with Sarah , and rejects the men , who instantly close ranks against her . |
| 9 | Hand in hand , my head composing witty excuses to lay hands on those ball-aching boobs — break the ice , break the duck.Too late ; she brushes herself down , roughly , I feel , making them jiggle . |
| 10 | Michel de Montaigne , a French writer of the same era , managed to avoid this hypocrisy , stating honestly that , ‘ When I play with my cat who knows whether she diverts herself with me , or I with her . |
| 11 | Presumably not : but it would be a very bold man , a Karl Marx indeed who would assert that , for each and every woman and always , housework is her spontaneous activity , that it is the satisfaction of a need ; or that she fulfils herself in it ; or that through it she develops freely a physical and mental energy and will not be physically exhausted and mentally debased . |
| 12 | And she involves herself with equal energy in various local charities . |
| 13 | Well , she upsets herself . |
| 14 | However she dresses herself , that 's what she becomes . |
| 15 | Her simple cosmetic operations completed , she dresses herself in opaque green tights , a wide brown tweed skirt and a thick sweater loosely knitted in muted shades of orange , green and brown . |
| 16 | Almost one might feel that she has herself directed matters in miraculous fashion , protecting herself and her devotees even among such perils . ’ |
| 17 | She studies herself ; I study her back . |
| 18 | She contents herself with short , heartfelt abuse of the dickhead kind . |
| 19 | ‘ She blames herself for your father 's death . |
| 20 | I do n't particularly like that word , but that 's how she describes herself and it 's great if people think that a tomboy is the best-dressed woman of the moment . |
| 21 | She describes herself as ‘ big and strong ’ , even though she readily admits she probably is n't actually that big — that 's just the way she feels about herself , the way she feels she has to be . |
| 22 | So in the final version of this book , I 've sketched in how the speaker looks , or else how she describes herself . |
| 23 | Elizabeth Jane Lloyd paints flowers — she describes herself as ‘ an ordinary oil painter ’ — and has often shown at Kew Gardens . |
| 24 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 25 | Noticing that her hands are shaking and knowing that he has noticed she forces herself to act cool , not daring for the moment to analyse her disquiet lest she is incapable of handling the reason . |
| 26 | A group of women can take in another who is thoroughly miserable , and if she allows herself to join in , she can find herself much restored by the general strength there . |
| 27 | She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children . |
| 28 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 29 | As she says herself , this is one lady born to be centre stage . |
| 30 | Not that that 's unreasonable in itself but it never seems to have bothered her before since she says herself she did n't normally stay the night , even if they 'd been out late . ’ |