Example sentences of "have [verb] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 4 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 5 | Isabella Rosellini has armed herself with a fizzing S and V — ve vill , vo n't we ? |
| 6 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 7 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the GDR , with a 1982 debt service ratio of 63 per cent faces an uphill struggle , Poland , with a debt service ratio of 191 per cent has put herself beyond the point of return as an OECD trading partner for at least a decade . |
| 10 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 11 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 12 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 17 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 20 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 21 | How could she have got herself into a mess like this ? |
| 22 | This is because Britain could not have defended herself in the Cold War order , and the common enemy demanded common action . |
| 23 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Angelina had cheered up considerably , having rid herself of the burden of guilt she was carrying . |
| 26 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 27 | Dolly made herself heard again , having swung herself off the bed to hop to the door of the bedroom . |
| 28 | She must have thrown herself down the stairs ! |
| 29 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 30 | Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over . |