Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] herself to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently , she believed herself to be quite unobserved . |
| 2 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 3 | Clara felt herself to be extremely fortunate in her membership of this group , and the insecurity of Janice 's position in it fortified her , for she knew herself to be more secure , less irritating , less tactless in every way than Janice . |
| 4 | She had been well able to look after herself since she had been about seven , and , when she came to think about it , she knew herself to be more effective than most men . |
| 5 | She felt herself to be reasonably proficient in Italian and she had begun , rather to the disapproval of her employers , to learn a few words of the Neapolitan dialect . |
| 6 | She felt herself to be still very slightly dazed , disorientated enough to give the impression that she was a disinterested observer of the scene and not quite able to realise that these things were in fact happening to her . |