Example sentences of "[noun] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 2 | Jane is convinced that this refusal to unburden herself to friends led to increased frustrations for her mother . |
| 3 | He appreciated how that quality was still apparent tonight ; although now , in the half-light , he thought he could detect something else : relief , perhaps , at being able to unburden herself at last . |
| 4 | The standard solution to this ‘ data-collecting problem ’ would be the one adopted by Lavandera herself in her 1975 study , of structuring interview questions so as to encourage the appearance of linguistic contexts which required the subjunctive ( cf. 7.2 ) . |
| 5 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 7 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 8 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
| 9 | THE CHILD HERSELF OF A fractured relationship , Neneh was raised by her mother and step-father Don Cherry , whom Moki ( now an artist who works for most of the year in New York ) met soon after Neneh was born . |
| 10 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 11 | Not being an expert herself in the art of model construction , the kids went too — and we 'll get their verdict on the home of Lego tomorrow . |
| 12 | He jerked out drawers and scattered their contents on the floor , dragged all her clothes from the wardrobe , threw out her shoes , then pulled Ruth herself from the bed and ripped off the sheets . |
| 13 | He also cut the last line of the final song , ‘ Rest till the rosy morn 's uprise ’ , leaving the Fairy Queen herself at the centre of a choral lullaby . |
| 14 | My speculations were cut short by the appearance of Karen herself at my elbow . |
| 15 | Belinda waited quietly , sensing her patient 's need for distraction , but wanting to take a cue from Faye herself before launching into shallow chat . |
| 16 | Once there Kate was too busy immersing herself in her work to worry about Ace in the pits . |
| 17 | Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn . |
| 18 | Among these , Margaret Peggie , a League of Health and Beauty trainer , is a great ‘ fan ’ of Medau work and regularly attended classes herself for several years . |
| 19 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 20 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 21 | The inquirer could not print out the pages herself at this point as the microcomputer was in use , so they were printed out and passed on to her . |
| 22 | The nurse brings to the relationship herself as a unique human being , the culmination of her particular life experiences . |
| 23 | Also , she is busy educating herself about opera . |
| 24 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 25 | Every day during the trial Tanya Probyn 's mother , Mrs Jackie May , has listened to witnesses , and gave evidence herself about a row between her daughter and Probyn . |
| 26 | This made her hate herself for what she had done . |
| 27 | Malcolm Hulke was a creator of Pathfinders , while Terry Nation , a close friend of Dennis Spooner , had contributed a sf script to ABC TV for a series called Out of this World , script-edited by Irene Shubik , soon to be brought to the BBC herself by Sydney Newman to helm his adult science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown , destined for the new channel , BBC 2 . |
| 28 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 29 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 30 | By returning to Ockham House , she could distance herself from events and reclaim a reassuring degree of privacy . |