Example sentences of "she [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She recovered herself a little , though she was still trembling . |
| 2 | Downstairs she made herself a cup of coffee and carried it out onto the patio and drank it at the table , smoked a loose-rolled sweet Italian cigarette , and watched the coming of the dawn . |
| 3 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 4 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 5 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 6 | She made herself a cup of English breakfast tea and then , with the kettle still boiling , steamed open the envelope . |
| 7 | She made herself a cup of tea , cut bread for toast , beat up eggs with grated cheese in a pan . |
| 8 | She made herself a cup of coffee and sat slowly drinking it , savouring the rich smooth brew . |
| 9 | She made herself a cathedral , not quite in the spirit of the exterior , but roomy enough . |
| 10 | She made herself a pump organ , and Dreamed up a man to play it . |
| 11 | She made herself a sandwich and a cup of tea and carried them along to her workroom . |
| 12 | Going through to the kitchen , she made herself a hot drink , and carried it into the room where the fire was at last beginning to heat up the air a little . |
| 13 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 14 | Leith was n't feeling very hungry when she got in , but she made herself a pot of tea and a snack , and , as she realised she had known she would , she worried . |
| 15 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 16 | Dared she make herself a cup of tea in Matey 's absence ? |
| 17 | Reading , she 's , she got herself , I told you she got herself a place in Reading College , to do her , an English A Level , . |
| 18 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
| 19 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
| 22 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 23 | ‘ She found herself a job as a telephonist at the GPO , ’ Lily said . |
| 24 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 25 | This was n't the way that she wanted things to be , she told herself a little frantically . |
| 26 | Sometimes she told herself the postcards , or exercise book scrawls , were messages to Daniel , but one should never , she considered , ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her , to Frederica . |
| 27 | The upshot was she got herself a room in a house full of artists round the corner . |
| 28 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 29 | She poured herself a glass of orange juice and carried it up the stairs to her room . |
| 30 | She poured herself a gin and tonic and took up a position she had frequently occupied since the kidnap — standing by the lounge window , staring out into the garden , glass cupped in her right hand and cradled against her breast like a child , cigarette held aloft in her left hand , mouth half-open , eyes fixed intently on some distant and perhaps invisible object . |