Example sentences of "[vb past] herself [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , Faye pronounced herself satisfied with the haircut , but her praise was given absently , and after she had told Belinda to hurry and dress as the guests were due at five , she said too casually , ‘ And before you go , love , would you get me a couple of Panadols ? |
| 2 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 3 | ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . ) |
| 4 | Isobel found herself fascinated by the diversity and challenge of Edouard 's work ; she also quickly found that she could be of help to him . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher , ironically , now found herself criticized by the Chicago sage , Milton Friedman , for failing to apply the monetarist remedy with sufficient consistency or determination . |
| 6 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |
| 7 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 8 | Unfortunately apart from some of the movies mentioned above , she found herself stuck in the '40s with the unwelcome label of Queen of the B's , because of her frequent roles in Charlie Chan , Mr Moto and Falcon Quickies . |
| 9 | The other teenage boys in the room were obviously heated with drugs and talk of women , for Amal was pounced upon by several boys at once and found herself pinned to the floor . |
| 10 | Such was her hope and her intent , but once launched upon her exposition she quickly found herself confused by the royal actors of the Art . |
| 11 | It was clear that the department would need to move with the times if its pupils were to continue to get good results , and , encouraged by her new Head of Department , Joanne found herself entrusted with the management of a curriculum innovation for the intake year . |
| 12 | Ashi found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief as she watched the threshing legs of her daughter . |
| 13 | Confused by the light in her eyes and the constant chattering of their host , Isabel found herself ushered into the house before she could correct the man 's assumption that she was fitzAlan 's lady . |
| 14 | Dolly suddenly made herself heard from the bedroom . |
| 15 | She probably got herself lost in the forest . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes far into the evening she kept herself locked at the desk , writing , writing . |
| 17 | Elisabeth already felt herself rebuked in the presence of Fru Møller and the Colonel — over matters beyond her control — and she was not going to add to that burden of disapproval if she could avoid it ; not again . |
| 18 | He cut and chopped and she felt herself detached from the rotten wood . |
| 19 | With what remained of her objective consciousness Louisa strove to tell herself that this encounter was not of her reality , not of her willing … but even as she struggled she felt herself drawn under the influence of a mind at once alien and familiar — a mind resolute to lacerate its own fine sensibility , and with a perverse , intellectual sang-froid . |
| 20 | Dexter smiled to himself as he imagined his boss 's grimace when she saw herself described in the Mirror as ‘ Scotland Yard 's female supersleuth ’ . |