Example sentences of "and herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , erm , just carrying on quickly it 's very hard to see how you could account for erm the stuff about reflectives and the polarity items if you did n't have the structures of the kind you get with T one and T two on verb phrases , erm and the reason 's just erm you want that kind of a symmetry between say Florence and herself between their positions in the tree and no one and anyone except you ca n't reverse them , things like that . |
| 2 | Victoria ripped the pale-blue cotton dress from her slim body and flung it and herself onto the ruffled bed . |
| 3 | There were the usual quiet couples and at a discreet corner table , a rather superior single lady who kept nose in a library book and herself to herself . |
| 4 | Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will . |
| 5 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |
| 6 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 7 | She changed the subject , just as Piers sat back down , favouring Simone with a broad smile and herself with nothing at all . |
| 8 | At the end of the two days , Anne found her appetite and her voice — and herself on the way to a nunnery . |
| 9 | She insisted on fresh flowers every day placed next to a photograph of Stephen and herself at the opening night of Crystal Springs . |
| 10 | She did n't see how she could fit Len and herself in anywhere . |
| 11 | Since the baby 's birth and its mother 's death her whole view of life seemed to have changed abruptly , as though someone had shaken a giant kaleidoscope and she saw the whole world and herself in a different light . |
| 12 | Judith for her part sought security for Charles and herself in new alliances . |
| 13 | She turned half-asleep in her big warm bed to curl an arm and herself round Lucy 's hot soft body . |