Example sentences of "herself for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied . |
| 2 | Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
| 5 | Claudia Yeo nerved herself for a final effort . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 7 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Please help me out of my problems , Mr Croydon , ’ she said softly , despising herself for the wheedling tone in her voice . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 10 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 11 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 12 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She rested her chin on her knees , preparing herself for the long wait . |
| 15 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 16 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 17 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 18 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 19 | He dipped towards her , and she tried again to free herself , but the more she struggled , the more his fingers tightened their hold on the back of her neck , and she closed her eyes helplessly , steeling herself for the marauding touch of his mouth . |
| 20 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 21 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |