Example sentences of "she have [verb] herself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 10 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 15 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 16 | She had kept herself to herself . |
| 17 | She had worn herself to death . |
| 18 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 19 | She had addressed herself to Ben , and he said , ‘ Aye , I could . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Millie 's mistress , frustrated at being parted from the family she had devoted herself to rearing and longing for the freedom to travel and relax , stayed loyal to her husband 's ambitions . |
| 21 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 22 | Still worse , she had allowed herself to be drawn into a conspiracy of exclusion . |
| 23 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 24 | She had allowed herself to be deceived — carried away by his physical allure already . |
| 25 | They watched patiently until she had impaled herself to the hilt on the huge dildo , and then they left . |
| 26 | She had resigned herself to that . |
| 27 | She had drilled herself to super-efficiency and had become one of the very highly paid temps the advertisements talk about , because there seemed little point in such jobs unless they were extravagantly rewarded . |