Example sentences of "herself [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate that man , she told herself vigorously when she eventually forced herself to sit down and jigsaw the jumbled fragments of her emotions into place . |
| 2 | She had eaten too many cookies at the tea and was feeling nauseated in consequence , but told herself wrathfully that it was Boyd 's disgusting ways that had done it . |
| 3 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |
| 4 | Except it was different this time , Jessamy reminded herself as she pulled herself slowly and painfully back to reality . |
| 5 | It was a mark of her artistic intelligence and independence that she did not choose to dish up a pot-pourri of well tried favourites for the occasion , drawing attention to herself rather than the music . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I did n't think you would come , ’ she said , and laughed , not at all a confused laugh , but quiet , and at herself rather than at him , looking down at her cupped hands as she did so . |
| 7 | Experience told him that a woman 's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker . |
| 8 | Such experience had aged her in advance of her years , and Jennifer was sometimes inclined to think that Jill was two or three years older than herself rather than eighteen months younger . |
| 9 | For her at this stage , not crying is a great achievement but she hopes that some day she will reach a better balance so that her tears will be for herself rather than to make an impression on others . |
| 10 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , she 's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him . |
| 12 | Put your foot down , she told herself weakly as he pulled her gently towards him . |
| 13 | She had made gallant efforts to pull herself together but had still been confused about the precise sequence of events between arriving at the church and the moment when she had pushed open the door of the Little Vestry . |
| 14 | After a while , though , she pulled herself together and , leaving one copy on her desk , took the other down to the secretarial room and asked if someone could run her off two more copies , ideally before the board meeting . |
| 15 | She patted the red dressing-gown soothingly , but Miss Watson pulled herself together and continued . |
| 16 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 17 | She pulled herself together and said , sounding brisker than she realized , ‘ Anyway , it 's splendid news . |
| 18 | She pulled herself together and back to the subject . |
| 19 | She pulled herself together and set off across the square . |
| 20 | Marguerite pulled herself together and led the way back into the room they had first entered . |
| 21 | She pulled herself together and went to bed . |
| 22 | Ronni pulled herself together and looked him in the eye . |
| 23 | Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void . |
| 24 | Almost immediately she pulled herself together and swept her long hair from her face with both hands . |
| 25 | After a moment or two to pull herself together and wash her face , she went back through the bedroom , her stomach heaving again when she saw the crumpled disorder of the bed . |
| 26 | Marguerite was already there and she too seemed to have pulled herself together because she took charge of the conversation at once . |
| 27 | But she still laboured under the apprehension that she had to prove herself better than a famous opponent who has been more successful than any other English singles player of the decade . |
| 28 | Not because she considered herself better than the people who were forced by circumstance to reside there , but because she found the atmosphere depressing . |
| 29 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 30 | But the solid Swiss world was no phantom , nor would the solar system cease forging steadily through interstellar space : the sun did swing away from our casement , for all that Mary said , for all our forgetting of time , and the baby awoke and cried ; so that Mary , giving me a langourous look , dressed herself carelessly and went down the stairs . |