Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like her father before her , Elizabeth I was also reluctant to accept a split in Europe along religious lines or to identify herself too closely with international Protestantism . |
| 2 | She put up her hand but whether it was to catch hold of the reins or to protect herself I do not know . |
| 3 | The other half , she admitted to herself , wanted nothing more than to fling herself into his arms , use all her feminine wiles to attack and conquer his patronising self-control . |
| 4 | And the fact that she wanted nothing more than to entrust herself to fitzAlan 's protection made her nervousness all the more acute . |
| 5 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 6 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 7 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 8 | She gave a little shake of her head as if to pull herself back to reality . |
| 9 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 10 | But the uncomfortable feeling remained , and to cheer herself up , Grace began to plan what she would wear tomorrow . |
| 11 | Joyce wisely decided to take her three smallest charges around the block to get away from the trauma , and to give herself chance to adjust to the idea . |
| 12 | She gripped my arms as she hugged me , as if to reassure herself I was n't going to disappear . |
| 13 | as if to reassure herself , she coldly analysed his features from under thick gold-brown eyelashes . |
| 14 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 15 | She returned from that visit almost sprightly ( desperate ? ) in her attempts to please and to ingratiate herself into the household . |
| 16 | She started to feel much more comfortable about how she looked , and unconsciously began to relax and to hold herself in the quietly poised way she did when dressed in a nurse 's uniform or casual clothes . |
| 17 | Without being aware of her movements , she had withdrawn her hands , as if to distance herself from him . |
| 18 | But Gran accepted it , patting her hand and then looking round at the clock as if to remind herself life had to go on . |
| 19 | Lucille half stood , as if to reveal herself to Sharpe , but he had seen the Duke and , seemingly oblivious of the effect his entrance had caused on the ball 's guests , now strode between the tables to the Duke 's side . |
| 20 | Fourth , the adult 's ongoing assessment of the child 's ability to understand what is being said and to make herself understood , may determine what the adult talks about and the way in which adult language is related to the context . |
| 21 | What was her daily rationale but to keep herself tuned to a pitch , taut as a bowstring ? |
| 22 | But to allow herself to be dictated to in this way when she knew she had done nothing wrong was tantamount to admitting guilt . |
| 23 | Stunned but ineffectual , she yelled in righteous rage and tried to pull herself to her feet , wanting nothing else but to throw herself at Duvall as … |
| 24 | Alice decided to sleep in the sitting-room again , because to choose herself a room would be a final separation . |
| 25 | Even the author appears undecided as to whether to present herself as blockbusting siren or scrubbed worthy . |
| 26 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 27 | She held an overhanging branch with one hand , as though to steady herself , and put up the other in a gesture of greeting . |
| 28 | Here the street-walkers were not too sophisticated : outside her tenement a harlot stood , skirts raised , over a chafing dish of coals on which she had sprinkled brimstone and perfume so as to fumigate herself . |
| 29 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 30 | As Margaret Anne Doody puts it : ‘ Leapor plays with the fascination of female ugliness in such a manner as to free herself from conventional claims of feminine proprieties . |