Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] she [vb past] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 2 | Spasms of jealousy writhed in her mind until she reminded herself that she had no right to object if he saw fit to do so . |
| 3 | His mouth came gently to her neck and she gave herself again to the lion . |
| 4 | Her feet kept on blundering along through the darkness and a stitch stabbed at her side but she blinded herself to exhaustion and ran . |
| 5 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 6 | A faint , ironic smile played about her mouth as she allowed herself , just for a minute , to imagine what the weekend could have held if she had been one of Dane 's legion of devoted followers . |
| 7 | As his wife had pointed out tartly , on many occasions , she herself would never get through a quarter of her work if she indulged herself in such idleness . |
| 8 | It stung her eye and she asked herself why this should happen . |
| 9 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |
| 10 | Odd sensations chased through her body and she found herself gasping for air . |
| 11 | It was when Kattina 's fierce tongue finally reached the sensitive folds of her slit that she found herself panting . |
| 12 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 13 | Polly caught her breath as she drew herself up . |
| 14 | All the same , she was n't best pleased to be disturbed by a knock on her door as she wrapped herself in a towelling robe and hid her wet hair in a turban after she stepped out of the shower . |
| 15 | The bow flagged in her hand and she heard herself exclaim . |
| 16 | Even the deeds of valour , so proudly recorded , only added to her depression as she reminded herself that each was committed in response to yet one more example of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 17 | Niall 's hand caught at her arm and she found herself being drawn towards him , the pressure of his fingers light but insistent . |
| 18 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 19 | Her mind swung away from her brother and she told herself that she could n't see herself spending her life with someone whose toes were just touching the ground ; her nature demanded stability . |
| 20 | Mrs. Oxley concluded her reading with three poignant poems about her son that she wrote herself . |
| 21 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
| 22 | Every time she tried to move he squeezed his grip and she felt herself begin to black out . |
| 23 | He watched his wife carefully out of the corner of his eye as she busied herself , stacking blankets , opening chests , replacing candles in their holders . |
| 24 | Boudariah , she began , slowly repeating his name as she settled herself more comfortably and tugged at her long , old-fashioned mask . |
| 25 | His grin was unexpected after the intensity of his stare and she found herself smiling back . |
| 26 | It was n't until she was completely out of his sight that she allowed herself to break into a swift trot . |
| 27 | He pushed her head to his shoulder and she found herself snuggling into the comfort , relaxing as his hand stroked through her hair . |
| 28 | She must wait until after his seduction before she made herself known to him . |
| 29 | But she could not help a resurgence of the queries raised in her mind at the hint of scandal in connection with his mother as she found herself in Mrs Alderley 's coach , being driven to Switham House . |