Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This weekend she had finally braced herself to the course of obtruding the existence of Len into the house . |
| 2 | She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors . |
| 3 | She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household . |
| 4 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 5 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 6 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 7 | Her great-grandmother had never dressed herself without the help of a lady 's maid , but times had changed since then . |
| 8 | She had never convinced herself of the reality of her pregnancy , she had never done anything about it . |