Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nodded and strode briskly to the sideboard , where she busied herself pouring coffee . |
| 2 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 3 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 4 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 5 | Anne felt a stab of pain , although she told herself that she was not interested in John Redmond any more , yet eagerly accepted an invitation to Sunday tea from Sarah . |
| 6 | Somehow the idea depressed Sophie , and although she told herself firmly not to be foolish the party held even less attraction for her . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 8 | ‘ Claudia , Claude was her real name , of course , but we could n't be doing with that , was an anthropologist , although she called herself an ethnographer , I remember , ’ says Fairfax . |
| 9 | She 'd like to meet this Parr , to make her own assessment , although she mocked herself because of her presumption . |
| 10 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
| 11 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 12 | His gaze was so disturbing that she felt herself trembling . |
| 13 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 14 | It was then , when it came to her that Vendelin Gajdusek was heady stuff , that she took herself severely to task . |
| 15 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 16 | That she saw herself not as I so much wanted , as my angel of forgiveness , but as my angel of salvation . |
| 17 | A married lady who is a leader in social purity movements and an enthusiast for sexual chastity , ( who ) discovered through reading some pamphlets against solitary vice , that she had herself been practising masturbation for years without knowing it . |
| 18 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 19 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
| 20 | so that she desired herself alone in order to become androgynous . |
| 21 | And in the moment that she laid herself open to dying she heard the whispery voices of the wild beasts in the wilderness : |
| 22 | Mrs. Oxley concluded her reading with three poignant poems about her son that she wrote herself . |
| 23 | ‘ Aye , ‘ t is more than time that she made herself useful . |
| 24 | Recording a verdict that she killed herself , Mr. Williams said : ‘ She was an affectionate girl , and a girl who needed affection . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you saying that she killed herself ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 27 | He recorded a verdict that she killed herself . |
| 28 | It was noted that she kept herself almost isolated from her own colleagues . |
| 29 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 30 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |