Example sentences of "she 'd [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 2 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 3 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 4 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 5 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 6 | She 'd placed herself at his mercy . |
| 7 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 8 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 9 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 10 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 11 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 12 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 13 | She 'd hanged herself over pressure of work and the fact she was terrified about her first essay . |
| 14 | She 'd committed herself to God 's ways , and to God 's people , and God directs her , and she comes to the field of Boaz And there was none more able to meet her need . |
| 15 | After what happened with Mortimer , she 'd voted herself off men for life . |
| 16 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 17 | From observing Star Eye , he thought she 'd modelled herself on Cabochon : she even sat like him and had started scraping her hair back into a ponytail , even though it was n't really long enough yet . |
| 18 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 19 | She 'd thrown herself into it with gritted teeth , recklessly taking on more than she could handle . |
| 20 | She 'd thrown herself at him , of course . |
| 21 | She 'd thrown herself at him , and then when she 'd panicked he 'd dropped her like a hot potato … what a fool she 'd been ! |
| 22 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 23 | 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 . |