Example sentences of "had [vb pp] herself [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 2 | Ruth had made herself up like a vampire from a horror film she had perhaps contrived to see , or some illustration in a library book . |
| 3 | Sarah had spruced herself up ; she wore a long , royal-blue coat ova a blue dress of some silky material and she had a blue cloche hat pulled down over her straggling grey hair . |
| 4 | Evelyn had wrought herself up to such a pitch that she was utterly unprepared for this turn of events . |
| 5 | She had hauled herself out of bed about twenty minutes ago when she 'd heard the doorbell . |
| 6 | Indeed , so shaken was she that , without being fully aware of what she was doing , she had invited him in and had led the way into her sitting-room before she had got herself back together again . |
| 7 | Robyn thought , remembering the way she had flung herself out of the house , the agony of driving home , the touch and taste of him haunting her down every mile of motorway … the floods of tears … |
| 8 | Willingly or unwillingly , she had bound herself down to a copy book with a fidelity that approaches , and this particularly in her most abstract canvases , the photographic … |
| 9 | Two or three times , during the past few days , she had caught herself blaming Alida Thorne bitterly , but had pulled herself up short , for she had no experience of life alone with an elderly and ailing dependent , she could not say , I would never do such a thing , because how did anyone know ? |
| 10 | She had driven herself on and on , trying to keep her thoughts painless , trying , without success , to think of anything except how badly Luke had hurt her , how easily he had destroyed her life . |
| 11 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
| 12 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 13 | I crawl , I kiss your arse , do everything — ’ She had worked herself up into a state of almost incoherent fury , like a child in a tantrum , tears streaming down her face and her whole body shaking in a sort of passion as she suddenly flew at him , clawing with her nails . |
| 14 | Ell had smartened herself up and started to harangue the android about his apparent surrender to fate . |
| 15 | Next moment Perdita , streaking down the field , had thrown herself out of the saddle and clinging with her left hand round Hermia 's damp hot neck , hooked Randy as the final bell tolled for South Sussex . |
| 16 | They lost a patient , a young woman in her twenties who had thrown herself out of a car at speed to get away from her husband . |
| 17 | The Lord had n't dealt bitterly with her , she had gone out of God 's will , she had taken herself out of the covering of God 's protection and blessing . |
| 18 | Unlike his wife , who had taken herself off to bed like one of the heroines in the penny dramas , he , James Grierson , was going to do something . |
| 19 | In order to pay back , to compensate Ethel Mitchell , she had put herself up to her neck in debt . |
| 20 | In these matters Emilia Frere knew more than she , for the woman had crossed the threshold of the married state ; she had delivered herself over to the meeting of the flesh as Louisa had not been called upon to do ; she had experienced what the uninitiate could only surmise . |
| 21 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |