Example sentences of "[vb past] herself [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then before she resumed her snail-slow progress back to bed she steeled herself to look in the mirror above the washbasin . |
| 2 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 3 | She probably got herself lost in the forest . ’ |
| 4 | Elisabeth already felt herself rebuked in the presence of Fru Møller and the Colonel — over matters beyond her control — and she was not going to add to that burden of disapproval if she could avoid it ; not again . |
| 5 | Ronni felt herself wince in the face of his sudden anger , but at the same time , finally , she understood something . |
| 6 | Dexter smiled to himself as he imagined his boss 's grimace when she saw herself described in the Mirror as ‘ Scotland Yard 's female supersleuth ’ . |