Example sentences of "[verb] herself for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
2 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
3 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
4 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
5 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
6 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
7 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |