Example sentences of "let herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , she had let herself get mixed up . |
| 2 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 3 | She 's a young girl who really has her feet planted on the ground and I do n't believe she has let herself be carried away by her success . |
| 4 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 5 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 6 | She always would have liked to have let herself be happy . |
| 7 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 8 | A friend who had a key let herself in and called upstairs , but I did n't want anyone to come into the bedroom because they might catch whatever it was I had . |
| 9 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 10 | Some part of her still wanted to defend Luke Hunter , even though she was beginning to realise that he was far from being the man she thought she knew — the man she had let herself love . |
| 11 | In the elegant gilt mirror she caught a glimpse of her panic-stricken face , and her eyes flashed like bright , angry sapphires because she had let herself be manipulated like an ignorant country girl . |
| 12 | How could she have let herself be used by a man who held her in contempt ? |
| 13 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 14 | How had she let herself be so deluded ? |
| 15 | It hurt very , very badly , but what hurt most was the awful feeling of having let herself down . |
| 16 | Just what had she let herself be talked into ? |
| 17 | Oh , how could she have let herself be so easily tricked , so eager to believe that he had changed ? |
| 18 | Arms she had n't let herself expect . |
| 19 | The question circling her head as she 'd climbed aboard the BA 747 that morning was why on earth had she let herself be talked into this ? |