Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 2 | She has positioned herself behind her desk , and will not meet my eyes . |
| 3 | Sally-Ann , unlike Rosemary , finds it a struggle and bitterly hurtful to dredge up her dreadful past — like Rosemary she has believed herself to be a doormat in society ; like Rosemary she has not known a childhood . |
| 4 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 5 | She came home early from the office , and she has locked herself in her room . |
| 6 | It is a story with which all machine knitters are very familiar and although there are no magic wands there are many ways out of the hole that she feels she has dug herself into . |
| 7 | In my judgment she remains capable as she has demonstrated herself to be capable of renouncing the tenets of the faith to suit her own chosen way of life . |
| 8 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 9 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 10 | She was going to sell herself — she has sold herself by now — and would have sold me — for supper . |
| 11 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 12 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 13 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 14 | There is no escape from the Baglady 's ghastly tale of a ruined life until she has released herself by at last telling her story . |
| 15 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 16 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I just hope she gets arrested herself for wasting police time . |
| 19 | Once more , she tries to lull herself into dreamland via a salacious scenario starring herself and Riva . |
| 20 | If she wishes to attach herself to the scare , I am delighted . |
| 21 | In a second phase the baby 's unified perceptions are shattered and she begins to understand herself as a subject disturbingly distant from the external world . |
| 22 | But I do n't think we should give her too long , cos she 's got herself into . |
| 23 | It 's wonderful , but she 's got herself into a state . |