Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slipped into her squelching hole as easily as a knife into butter : and she moaned blissfully when she felt herself well and truly corked . |
| 2 | When she told herself that the concern could be genuine . |
| 3 | And when she calmed herself sufficiently to face him he had gone . |
| 4 | She was happy when she starved herself of new clothes and expensive hairdressers , her bun gone , her blonde hair cut short , strict and styleless , by a merciless local hairdresser . |
| 5 | The wooden seat , when she lifted herself on to it , was still warm . |
| 6 | Dexter smiled to himself as he imagined his boss 's grimace when she saw herself described in the Mirror as ‘ Scotland Yard 's female supersleuth ’ . |
| 7 | She knew why he sounded so strangled when she saw herself . |
| 8 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 9 | Jay demanded , her voice ugly , feeling so far away she could lose no more , the angrier she grew the further Lucy went ; but when she forced herself to be quiet and good , Lucy still kept her distance . |
| 10 | When she stretched herself and her interpretive talents , like on the great ‘ Martha 's Harbour ’ , we all forgot that our cred was round our ankles for liking them and wept . |
| 11 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 12 | The girl at the reception desk nodded when she introduced herself . |
| 13 | It seemed years , ages later when she found herself picking up pieces of broken plate and wiping fried egg off the tiles — so that Gran , when she returned , would find the kitchen tidy . |
| 14 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 15 | The unexpected male voice at the door made her heart race , but she was able to summon up a smile when she found herself looking into Gavin 's hazel eyes . |
| 16 | He met her gaze with a certain amount of scepticism , looking very satisfied when she found herself unable to meet his eyes for long . |
| 17 | She was too lost in misery , and when she found herself being lifted to her feet embarrassment added itself to the misery . |
| 18 | Isabel murmured , her mind still working only sluggishly , although she managed to grasp the saddle when she found herself sitting in it . |
| 19 | The woman had become suicidally depressed while pregnant with her previous two children and was devastated when she found herself accidentally pregnant again . |
| 20 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the fragile harmony between them was soon broken when she found herself arguing furiously with him in the dress department of Bloomingdales . |
| 22 | Luce struggled to pin down the elusive thought , but it hovered , wraith-like , just out of reach , and in a minute or so was blotted out completely when she found herself being carried into a strange , and clearly masculine , bedroom . |
| 23 | But when she got to Auckland , when she found herself alone with Damian for three days and three nights … what would she think of then ? |
| 24 | The South African , once ranked in the world 's top 300 , decided to enter when she found herself in the north west for a three-months summer stay with her boyfriend 's family in Bolton , but was never seriously tested as Benmnett fell to her second consecutive defeat in the final . |
| 25 | It drove him mad when she turned herself into a sphinx as a ruse to avoid facing the truth . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope Wilmot can handle this , ’ said Holly anticipating the lawyer 's reproach when she explained herself to him . |
| 27 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 28 | With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post . |
| 29 | There was a time when she was interested in their politics , their science , their inventions , when she considered herself a small part of the great adventure , until one day the feeling was born in her that she did not belong among them . |
| 30 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |