Example sentences of "she have [verb] to herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier she 'd said to herself : ‘ There will be trouble there . |
| 2 | ‘ That was a close one ! ’ she 'd muttered to herself . |
| 3 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 4 | She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself . |
| 5 | That he had been well over the limit , both speed and booze limits , following a blazing row with her mother , she had kept to herself . |
| 6 | She had said to herself , thinking of that absence , there 's my chance ! |
| 7 | She was mumbling words , the cool words she had rehearsed to herself were lost . |
| 8 | And she had to admit to herself that she was also faintly , dimly , desirably worried , for she could not tell when or if he would stop . |
| 9 | But his outrageous irreverence was a relief ; eventually she had to admit to herself that she looked forward to hearing what Lieutenant Woolley had done now . |
| 10 | Disgusting , she had thought to herself . |
| 11 | Reluctantly she decided she must see it through , for Peter , and in some way for herself — she had to prove to herself that she could come face to face with Marc again and survive the ordeal . |
| 12 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |