Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has positioned herself behind her desk , and will not meet my eyes . |
| 2 | Sally-Ann , unlike Rosemary , finds it a struggle and bitterly hurtful to dredge up her dreadful past — like Rosemary she has believed herself to be a doormat in society ; like Rosemary she has not known a childhood . |
| 3 | The cut may be made with little or no apparent awareness , the patient suddenly discovering that she has cut herself and at the same time experiencing a sense of relief . |
| 4 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 5 | You will not necessarily see your physiotherapist doing exactly the treatment techniques described below : she may use some of these techniques plus others she has devised herself , or she may use a completely different method . |
| 6 | But on closer investigation it turns out that she has trained herself only to like healthy food . |
| 7 | She came home early from the office , and she has locked herself in her room . |
| 8 | I ca n't go into the glass office as she has locked herself inside , so I press the intercom like the sign tells me to . |
| 9 | It is a story with which all machine knitters are very familiar and although there are no magic wands there are many ways out of the hole that she feels she has dug herself into . |
| 10 | In my judgment she remains capable as she has demonstrated herself to be capable of renouncing the tenets of the faith to suit her own chosen way of life . |
| 11 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 12 | We asked her why she has given herself such an arduous task . |
| 13 | In doing so she has laid herself low as well . |
| 14 | And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church . |
| 15 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 16 | She was going to sell herself — she has sold herself by now — and would have sold me — for supper . |
| 17 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 18 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 19 | She 's a young girl who really has her feet planted on the ground and I do n't believe she has let herself be carried away by her success . |
| 20 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 21 | Because she has worked herself up into a pitiful state of fear and tension , this does not mean that her suffering is not real . |
| 22 | I have been in touch with Jeanette ; she has found herself a job and seems to be settling down , while hoping for a visit from a certain young man ! |
| 23 | It is as if she has opened herself up and not lied but she has still timed her ‘ coming out ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ She has insinuated herself . ’ |
| 25 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 26 | There is no escape from the Baglady 's ghastly tale of a ruined life until she has released herself by at last telling her story . |
| 27 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 28 | ‘ It 's partly because she has got herself cornered economically , and partly because deep down she thinks there is a nationalist string she can pluck to her electoral advantage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She knows from the start she will get the job and participates with passive fascination in the necessary motions ; the selection board chivalrously closes the door on the trap she has set herself . |