Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 2 | He had also come to respect Irina for her ability so rapidly to transform herself into a reasonably well-dressed , reasonably good-looking girl . |
| 3 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 4 | But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak . |
| 5 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 6 | She did n't exactly throw herself against the door , but she began to beat on it with her fists . |
| 7 | Lesley does n't really judge herself as a musician anyway , but was quite happy to be judged as woman first because she is ‘ immensely proud ’ of her gender . |
| 8 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ she said with feeling , dispelling a pang of guilt with the observation that she was certainly not presenting herself in a flattering light . |