Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had drilled herself to super-efficiency and had become one of the very highly paid temps the advertisements talk about , because there seemed little point in such jobs unless they were extravagantly rewarded . |
| 2 | She 'd committed herself to God 's ways , and to God 's people , and God directs her , and she comes to the field of Boaz And there was none more able to meet her need . |
| 3 | She had addressed herself to Ben , and he said , ‘ Aye , I could . |
| 4 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 5 | It seemed to Harriet that Liza must have unburdened herself to Dr Forman rather than her own mother and somehow this increased her sense of resentment . |
| 6 | Lucille had seen the Prince 's arrival and hasty departure , and had resigned herself to Sharpe 's absence . |
| 7 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 8 | She had resigned herself to that . |
| 9 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 10 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 11 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 12 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 13 | Miss Dors , who has since shown herself to be a capable character actress , remembers her bubble-bathing days as a cushion for male dreams with amused tolerance : |
| 14 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 15 | Time and again , that woman had shown herself to be as scheming and ruthless as any criminal-minded rogue he had ever come across ; with the exception of his good self , of course . |
| 16 | Mrs Pigdon had shown herself to be anything but sympathetic when she arrived at the hostelry earlier that evening . |
| 17 | This Matilda had shown herself to be as resolute and intelligent as her cousin and namesake in Gloucester , but had forgotten neither compassion nor patience . |
| 18 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 19 | But I followed landmarks — the glade of birch saplings ; the drift of unmelted snow where Kāli had helped herself to a frozen drink : the huge pine tree whose trunk had been gouged to a tenth of its width for jharo . |
| 20 | Japan , too , had joined the conflict on the Allied side on 23 August 1914 and had swiftly helped herself to German possessions in the east , including the Carolina group of islands on 7 October and Kiauchau on 7 November . |
| 21 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 22 | In my judgment she remains capable as she has demonstrated herself to be capable of renouncing the tenets of the faith to suit her own chosen way of life . |
| 23 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 24 | She had worn herself to death . |
| 25 | Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ? |
| 26 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 27 | Having given herself to him , she was his . |
| 28 | Because you ca n't very well imprison someone who 's given herself to you . |
| 29 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 30 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |