Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His appointment as a Bishop , was in the immediate aftermath of the closing of the Second Vatican Council ; which was to pose new challenges to the whole Church as she sought to renew herself under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit . |
| 2 | Why on earth should she want to tie herself to someone like that ? ’ |
| 3 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 4 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 5 | Horrified , she tried to wrench herself from sleep — then the water struck , roaring round her ears . |
| 6 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 7 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 8 | She tried to jolly herself into enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 10 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 11 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 12 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 13 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 14 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 15 | Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be . |
| 16 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 17 | With a slight change of posture — a lift of the head , a straightening of the already straight back , that little proud look — she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind . |
| 18 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 19 | Driving to the office , she strove to get herself under control once more . |
| 20 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 21 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 22 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 23 | She started to tap herself on the forehead . |
| 24 | The tour finished in the kitchen and she started to busy herself around the cooker . |
| 25 | With her hand on the iron banister , she started to pull herself towards the rooftops . |
| 26 | She decided to treat herself to a fig from the bowl and found its skin still damp , as though it had been recently washed . |
| 27 | Unable to resist , she decided to treat herself to one of the dresses in a shade of pale coral . |
| 28 | She decided to extricate herself with dignity . |
| 29 | He was just marrying her out of ambition — how many more times did she have to remind herself of that ? |
| 30 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |