Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topaz gave a deep curtsey and found herself raised up by a royal hand . |
| 2 | Robyn took a deep breath and forced herself to speak reasonably , calmly . |
| 3 | She took a deep breath and made herself speak slowly . |
| 4 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 5 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 6 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 7 | It really is very difficult to convey , sir , the immense difficulties this woman was up against , trying to give her daughter the benefits of a modern education but bound herself by a family subscribing to a quite different system of ‘ mores ’ . |
| 8 | About to batter the floor with her heel , Lissa stopped herself with a superhuman effort and held herself rigid . |