Example sentences of "she have [verb] [pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came home early from the office , and she has locked herself in her room . |
| 2 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even so , she had hidden herself in the claustrophobic cabin , afraid she might be recognized . |
| 5 | During our work with this widow , whose husband had died very unexpectedly , it turned out that since the time of his death until the time she contacted us , she had kept herself in a state of perpetual motion between her house and that of her son who lived some fifty miles away . |
| 6 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 7 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 8 | She had entrenched herself in virtue . |
| 9 | She had found herself in the safe nook between Fenna 's sail-like wing and the crenellated and fantastic fortress of his spine . |
| 10 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 11 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
| 12 | She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other . |
| 13 | She wore enormous shapeless skirts which looked as if they were made from old curtains or bedspreads , and baggy sweatshirts which she had dyed herself in dingy shades of rust , snot-green and pale mouldy purple . |
| 14 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 15 | She had thought herself in love , but it had been only an infatuation , the awakening response of a young , impressionable girl . |
| 16 | It was a feeling which she had never had before , not even with Terry or Havvie , both of whom she had thought herself in love with . |
| 17 | She had disgraced herself in public , which was bad enough . |
| 18 | She had coached herself in the role , prepared her questions . |