Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon recovery in hospital she said she had intended to kill herself . |
| 2 | His thick blond hair , deep blue eyes and effortless charm had probably captivated the hearts of a host of women that evening , but as Becky assumed that every girl received exactly the same treatment , she avoided allowing herself to be flattered by him . |
| 3 | She especially did not want to enjoy herself . |
| 4 | Not easy for her to deny me , I 'd assumed she meant , not easy to continue denying herself . |
| 5 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 6 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 7 | She did not want to find herself alone in that Headmaster 's Study , where she would have to begin to think . |
| 8 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 9 | She stopped to steady herself . |
| 10 | In looking at her tender and respectful image of a woman friend , forced to write to support herself and her widowed mother ‘ Portrait of Cornelia Knight ’ ( 1793 ) we see something more direct , less cluttered , and less rhetorical than the ‘ Portrait of Mary , 3rd Duchess of Richmond in a Turkish Dress ’ ( 1775 ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Smith , who 's Belgian by birth , has taught herself Hungarian so she can work in Hungary to raise money — but ultimately without more funds the cost of helping Ashley stand on his own two feet may prove too high . |
| 12 | ENCHANTA has proven herself , having sailed in most of the oceans of the world and has performed admirably , whether for long distance cruising , day sailing , or corporate entertaining . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd tell any new mum who wants to treat herself to buy a steam steriliser . |
| 14 | Then a few weeks after her husband died Mary took a large number of pills and tried to kill herself . |
| 15 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 16 | And then she tried to kill herself but now she 's all right . |
| 17 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 18 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 19 | I 'm very sorry to have to tell you this — but Mrs Kemp tried to kill herself this afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | Commissioned in May of 1986 , this vessel has distinguished herself in both the U.S. and European cruising circuits . |
| 21 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 22 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 23 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 24 | We asked her why she has given herself such an arduous task . |
| 25 | She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery . |
| 26 | ‘ She has insinuated herself . ’ |
| 27 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 28 | She tried to shake herself free of his grasp but his hold tightened . |
| 29 | Head in her hands , she tried to pull herself together . |
| 30 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |