Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 3 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 4 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 5 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 6 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 7 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 8 | But her wounds had begun to heal and yesterday she had felt herself on the verge of a promising beginning — an uphill struggle , perhaps , but a definite move towards new happiness . |
| 9 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 10 | A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments . |
| 11 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 12 | The thoughtful echo rang in her ears long after she 'd buried herself beneath the bed cover in the privacy of her room , and yearned for the oblivion of sleep . |
| 13 | She had never convinced herself of the reality of her pregnancy , she had never done anything about it . |
| 14 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 15 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 16 | Angelina had cheered up considerably , having rid herself of the burden of guilt she was carrying . |
| 17 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , come on in then ! ’ had reseated herself in the chair , and motioned me to take my place next to her at the desk . |
| 19 | Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ? |
| 20 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 21 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 22 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 23 | She had introduced herself on the doorstep , often been invited in and asked the tenants to let her know if they had any problems with which she could help . |
| 24 | She had soiled herself to the point of revulsion by submitting to his pawing in the public street — as shameless as the casual coupling of two dogs . |
| 25 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 27 | The Girl-Human had seated herself before the fire ; Inchbad could see how the firelight fell across her face and brought out red lights in her hair . |
| 28 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 29 | Dolly made herself heard again , having swung herself off the bed to hop to the door of the bedroom . |
| 30 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |