Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JERVIS : I am not to dispute with your honour , but I dare say if the men will let her alone she 'll never trouble herself about them . |
| 2 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 3 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 4 | Ruth could only blame herself for being so blind and gullible . |
| 5 | Alice could hardly prevent herself from openly exulting . |
| 6 | With himself , Aranyos and a dozen grenadiers for protection , even the fräulein could hardly get herself into trouble . |
| 7 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 8 | He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’ |
| 9 | Whatever her beginnings in life , she could now carry herself in the most élite company without the slightest fear of revealing her true origins . |
| 10 | Should the plan be discovered and Alianor be seen as party to the clandestine meeting , she could well find herself in danger , accused of shelving her responsibility for the lady Anne 's protection and honour … |
| 11 | In truth , she should be grateful to him for coming to her rescue — instead she could barely bring herself to be civil . |
| 12 | She is there at a general , collective level ; she may also reveal herself as a polarized force ; and again as the inner light of the individual . |
| 13 | And she may also play herself in a TV drama adaptation , according to her agent . |
| 14 | She insisted she would only address herself to the managers . |
| 15 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 16 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 17 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 18 | As a young child , susan Rothenberg frequented her neighbourhood gallery , the Allbright Knox in Buffalo , New York , leaving with a knowledge that she would someday express herself in charcoal and pencil , gesso and paint . |
| 19 | And after her experience with Tony she would never allow herself to be imposed on that way again . |
| 20 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 21 | Selfishness had made her want to have the fiddle , and she would never forgive herself for what had happened . |
| 22 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |
| 23 | No doubt she will also enjoy herself with the best of our manhood . ’ |
| 24 | The new mother will often throw herself into motherhood so fully that she forgets to give time to the marital relationship , which can suffer considerable damage as a result . |
| 25 | ‘ She allowed a man to persuade her into taking the drug , so she can only blame herself for her predicament . |