Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 2 | She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments . |
| 3 | She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best . |
| 4 | Luke watched her as she gingerly helped herself to some of the food . |
| 5 | Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her . |
| 6 | She scarcely recognised herself in the woman who confronted her . |
| 7 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 8 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 9 | How on earth had she ever got herself into such a mess ? |
| 10 | Indeed she once described herself as ‘ the Cabinet rebel ’ . |
| 11 | Mary herself , in captivity in England but forever smuggling out letters and appeals , dealt slyly in shrouded half-promises and suggestions , but made one thing quite clear : she still regarded herself as rightful Queen of Scots and , even towards the end , offered no more than a grudging suggestion of James being ‘ associated ’ with her in ruling the country . |
| 12 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 13 | Alix could not have afforded this solution , and would have thought it cheating had she been able to afford it , although she thoroughly despised herself for these scruples . |
| 14 | She practically flung herself into the driver 's seat , moaning loudly with pain as she eased herself into position and started the engine . |
| 15 | ‘ She probably threw herself at him . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher , however , has remained a mobilizer ; she clearly regards herself as Heath plus , providing greater political will and persistence . |
| 17 | Violet Markham , for example , recalled in her autobiography that her antagonism to the vote was closely associated with her imperialism , even though as a Liberal she often felt herself to be siding with a ‘ hotbed of reactionaries ’ . |
| 18 | She now felt herself to be like the squirrel , staring with bright inimical eyes at a sad domestic beast . |
| 19 | Any whiff of scandal had evaporated , and she now threw herself into a hectic work schedule . |
| 20 | But Ruth goes out and she diligently applies herself to it . |
| 21 | She cheerfully describes herself as a ‘ big girlie ’ . |
| 22 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 23 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 24 | She then concealed herself in the shadows between the two towers , thus to survey the scene and decide on her best approach . |
| 25 | She almost offered herself for the fight , the surrogate , the already-victorious . |
| 26 | Mrs Gracie had come to associate herself so much with the family that she almost included herself in the purchase . |
| 27 | She sometimes pulled herself into a corner of the cabin with Roukoubé across her knees on his stomach and patted out a tune softly as she rubbed his back after feeding him , but she no longer made up words : she had no more words , indeed it seemed to her she no longer owned a voice , but only a hollow drum for a head on which others beat their summons . |
| 28 | And she never entrusted herself to anyone else , especially a man , when she was out of her head . |
| 29 | [ She constructed herself a bed so excruciatingly painful that ] although she was very generous , still she never placed herself upon it without trembling and shuddering … so violent was the emotion which the inferior [ i.e. her body ] manifested at the sight of the pain it was to endure … |
| 30 | But perhaps she also identified in John the orphan she half recognized herself to be . |