Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pn reflx] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 2 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 3 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 4 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 5 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 6 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 7 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 8 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 9 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |