Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 2 | This left Lady Arran free to fortify herself with a large tot of rum . |
| 3 | ‘ You must come and have supper sometime , ’ Daisy was staggered to hear herself saying . |
| 4 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 5 | But she could find a job and a furnished flat , and then she 'd be free , free to give herself to Nicolo as his lover … |
| 6 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 7 | She was an aloof , high-class woman willing to give herself and talk dirty to seduce a Nazi officer . |
| 8 | It seemed sensible to give herself time to readjust after she got back . |
| 9 | She was not willing to let herself be betrayed and used by Urquhart . |
| 10 | More often , it turns into loss of direction or of purposeful organization , because no one is willing to separate herself from the rest in order to take charge . |
| 11 | But she was afraid to allow herself to become pregnant and therefore , although it was against her religious beliefs , was using contraceptives . |
| 12 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 13 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 14 | Leila stood up , quite prepared to defend herself , although she knew a trained assassin when she saw one . |
| 15 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 16 | This did not mean she was prepared to throw herself headlong into a relationship with the first half-decent male who happened by . |
| 17 | She was too weak to feed herself , and Agnes had to spoon the broth into her mouth . |
| 18 | Yorkshire miller 's pretty daughter and friend of Fanny Squeers ; a pert mischief-maker , though essentially good-hearted , who encourages Fanny to delude herself that she loves Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 19 | Although Helen is aware that her feelings of being to blame are irrational and unjustified , sadly , they are not easy to rid herself of . |
| 20 | It was impossible to imagine herself standing about patiently feeding pigeons with a toddler beside her . |
| 21 | Mother looked at them , shook her head and sighed , then advising Etty to rinse herself with the warm water , she turned , stood up , and moved towards the door , unaware that her apron-strings were entangled with a handle of the zinc-tub … |
| 22 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 23 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 24 | Perhaps it had been crazy , but loyalty to her aunt and uncle had made it impossible to save herself by telling the truth . |
| 25 | It was impossible to distance herself physically in the small room — doing so mentally was the next best thing . |
| 26 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 27 | It was less easy to convince herself that the thought of lying down on the bench with fitzAlan , with hardly a stitch of clothing between them , did n't scare the wits out of her . |
| 28 | At the same time she was so ravenous to talk to him that it was quite impossible to stop herself . |
| 29 | All the same it was n't easy to stop herself from wondering if he too was having difficulties in not remembering what had happened over the last forty-eight hours . |
| 30 | Crushed ambitions and women 's lib feelings had rallied to the author 's right to identify herself with a polished ship . |