Example sentences of "herself [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 2 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
| 3 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 4 | She rested her chin on her knees , preparing herself for the long wait . |
| 5 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 6 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 7 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 8 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 9 | Alexandra surveyed herself in the long glass on the wall . |
| 10 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 11 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 12 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 13 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |