Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [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 | His thick blond hair , deep blue eyes and effortless charm had probably captivated the hearts of a host of women that evening , but as Becky assumed that every girl received exactly the same treatment , she avoided allowing herself to be flattered by him . |
| 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 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 15 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 16 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 17 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 18 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 19 | She 'd placed herself at his mercy . |
| 20 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 21 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 22 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 23 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 24 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 25 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 26 | She 'd hanged herself over pressure of work and the fact she was terrified about her first essay . |
| 27 | She 'd committed herself to God 's ways , and to God 's people , and God directs her , and she comes to the field of Boaz And there was none more able to meet her need . |
| 28 | After what happened with Mortimer , she 'd voted herself off men for life . |
| 29 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 30 | From observing Star Eye , he thought she 'd modelled herself on Cabochon : she even sat like him and had started scraping her hair back into a ponytail , even though it was n't really long enough yet . |