Example sentences of "she be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she could never let him know it , he already possessed her heart ; if she were to give herself to him body and soul , at least the memories would be rich and ultimately fulfilling . |
| 2 | He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh . |
| 3 | Since then , she 's kept herself to herself . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You mean she 's throwing herself at you ? |
| 5 | ‘ She 's no longer a child , Mother , and she 's throwing herself at George . |
| 6 | She 's throwing herself at that man , making a complete fool of herself . |
| 7 | She 's brainwashed herself into believing otherwise , ’ he declared with conviction . |
| 8 | She 's established herself as a writer with award winning novels including ’ I 'm the King of the Castle ’ and ’ Woman in Black ’ but Mrs de Winter has come in for criticism . |
| 9 | Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's killing herself with what she eats , ’ said Lord Grubb to the three left at the table , who felt they should be listening to nothing . |
| 11 | But I mean it 's not just that , she 's killing herself for the job like ! |
| 12 | She is expressing herself against the popular wisdom concerning her sex . |
| 13 | And in doing so , she is internalising , that is , she is filling herself with what does not rightfully belong to her . |
| 14 | She is launching herself into Europe with at least as much conviction as any other British businessperson has so far shown . |
| 15 | In a survey of London 's trades in 1747 , the wages of milliners were said to be " poor and mean " : " Though a young woman can work neatly in all manner of Needle Work , yet she can not earn more than Five or Six Shillings [ 25-30p ] a week , out of which she is to find herself in board and lodging . " |
| 16 | In the first place , she was accusing herself of hypocrisy . |
| 17 | She was saving herself for Elder Seth . |
| 18 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 19 | " Oh , talk sense , " she was proving herself beyond reason , and unsuccessful as well . |
| 20 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 21 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 22 | She soon realised that Stephen 's mother thought she was demeaning herself by ‘ hobnobbing with the peasantry ’ but Stephen was grateful for her interest and that was all that mattered to Tamar . |
| 23 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 24 | She was offering herself to him on a silver platter , no strings attached , and she would simply cope with the agony of their parting when the time came . |
| 25 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 26 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 27 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 28 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 29 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 30 | She probably imagined she was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion , thought Lydia , sneering and lengthening her stride . |