Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [verb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When she had repeated herself five or six times , the CIA man slammed the phone down in a rage , and Reagan never learned what he had to say . ’ |
| 2 | She found herself thinking that when she had forced herself to read how and when Oreste had died she would take her sleeping baby and drown both him and herself forthwith . |
| 3 | When she had booked herself a room the clerk had suggested taking either a water-taxi or a vaporetto to the hotel . |
| 4 | Only when she had rinsed herself clean and gone through the whole process again did she feel able to step from under the flood of water . |
| 5 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |
| 6 | And yet there had been a fleeting moment , as he 'd held her tight in his arms , when she 'd found herself longing to lower her defences , to give in to the unfamiliar forces driving through her body with his touch . |
| 7 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 8 | When she tried to imagine herself working in an office or a bank , her mind soon went blank , like a cinema screen when the projector breaks down or the film snaps . |
| 9 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |