Example sentences of "she [vb past] herself [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she found herself unwillingly waiting for Piers to return , watching the door , listening for the sound of the car . |
| 2 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 3 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 4 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 5 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 6 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 7 | She took herself in hand , the essay she told herself firmly had to be shelved : one step before the other . |
| 8 | She shook herself vigorously to throw off the fugginess in her head . |
| 9 | When his kiss only brushed her cheekbone , she pulled herself away to stare into doubt . |
| 10 | It was noted that she kept herself almost isolated from her own colleagues . |
| 11 | She felt herself mysteriously attached to the whole of creation . |
| 12 | And thence to Halifax where they had entered the town in their thousands , led by the women , Sairellen had been pleased to hear , walking four and five abreast , empty-handed and bare-headed as she had herself once walked to York , singing the psalm she too had sung on that day . |