Example sentences of "[vb infin] herself [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For days afterwards , she could n't rid herself of the guilty feeling that , somehow , she had brought the attack upon herself . |
| 2 | She would confine herself to the final phase of Marie 's life . |
| 3 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 4 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 5 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 6 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 7 | She wants her image ‘ sorted out ’ before she signs a deal to prevent any manipulation , to ensure no one tells her how she should present herself to the record-buying public . |
| 8 | Although she did not deny that he was handsome and in many ways attractive , she could not envisage herself in an intimate relationship with him . |
| 9 | She had n't eaten the spinach , and in doing so created a martyrdom ; now she must restrain herself from the agonizing satisfaction of telling Maman all the truth , thus getting Aunt Tossie into dreadful trouble . |
| 10 | The 50-year-old Swede , who has starred in more than 30 movies , will play herself during a week-long guest appearance over Christmas . |
| 11 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 12 | She is there at a general , collective level ; she may also reveal herself as a polarized force ; and again as the inner light of the individual . |
| 13 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 14 | In leading the transformation of the EEC , Britain would place herself in a true sense at the heart of Europe . |
| 15 | In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster . |
| 16 | Instead , Murray will find herself in a 12-runner final , with only four adversaries likely to bar her path to gold — the Netherlands ' Elly Van Hulst , Romanian Margareta Keszeg , American Lynn Jennings and Russian Olga Kovpotina. — PA . |
| 17 | On top of that she will find herself in a different group for pensions and income tax . |