Example sentences of "[vb past] herself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it . |
| 2 | Since she left Downing Street , Lady T has sensibly turned her attention elsewhere and built herself a new and interesting life around the globe . |
| 3 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 4 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
| 5 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 6 | ‘ She found herself a job as a telephonist at the GPO , ’ Lily said . |
| 7 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 8 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 9 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 10 | Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast . |
| 11 | After she had given Miguel time to pay the bills and get away , she retraced her steps and found herself a table at a café in an arcade in one of the ornamental squares by a pretty fountain . |
| 12 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 13 | The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners . |
| 14 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 15 | Mr Spencer told the jury : ‘ For a period of two years , from about the age of 13 onwards , the girl found herself the target of sexual and physical abuse from her stepfather . |
| 16 | It was to her own surprise that Muriel Box , the director of 14 modest budget feature films between 1951 and 1964 , found herself an inspiration and a role model for a new generation of women film-makers , critics and students . |
| 17 | Meredith found herself an interpreter — the son of the cook — and he 'd become her devoted fan . |
| 18 | This was n't the way that she wanted things to be , she told herself a little frantically . |
| 19 | Sometimes she told herself the postcards , or exercise book scrawls , were messages to Daniel , but one should never , she considered , ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her , to Frederica . |
| 20 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 21 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 22 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 23 | Fred merely nodded and picked up the paper , pretending to be engrossed in an article , and Carrie afforded herself a sly grin . |
| 24 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |
| 25 | True , in a first half devoted to the song repertory she allowed herself a Wolf group which included Mein Liebster ist so Klein and Ich hab' in Penna . |
| 26 | Rachel allowed herself a brief smile at such youthfulness . |
| 27 | Frau Nordern allowed herself a note of exasperation . |
| 28 | And , as she pictured Simon in her mind , she allowed herself a brief , spontaneous grin of relief and childlike joy . |
| 29 | So she felt when she allowed herself a journey to London and made like a homing pigeon for the perfumery counters of department stores . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh bother ! ’ she allowed herself a wee expletive and reached for the telephone daintily with whitened fingers . |