Example sentences of "[prep] herself [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 2 | She had justified her behaviour to herself on the basis that the police would have been much slower and more painstaking . |
| 3 | ‘ There the beastly thing goes again ! ’ she grumbled under her breath , grimacing at herself in the mirror as she caught the faint hum and slight clattering sound from the living-room , where the machine was clearly spewing forth yet more reams of urgent letters and company reports from all over the world . |
| 4 | She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled , thinking that only the birds could see her . |
| 5 | Rhoda looked at herself in the mirror and said , ‘ I do n't see much wrong with me . |
| 6 | Charity had a look at herself in the mirror and sighed . |
| 7 | But when Jasmine was born they put Joan in a room by herself at the hospital so she could n't see other fathers cuddling their first-born as Bobby would have done . |
| 8 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |