Example sentences of "she have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has positioned herself behind her desk , and will not meet my eyes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | She came home early from the office , and she has locked herself in her room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 8 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 9 | She was going to sell herself — she has sold herself by now — and would have sold me — for supper . |
| 10 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 17 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She 'd placed herself at his mercy . |
| 22 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 23 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 24 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 25 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 28 | She 'd hanged herself over pressure of work and the fact she was terrified about her first essay . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After what happened with Mortimer , she 'd voted herself off men for life . |