Example sentences of "had [vb pp] herself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , she had hidden herself in the claustrophobic cabin , afraid she might be recognized . |
| 2 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 3 | However , it seemed the news that a low-class woman had presented herself at the back door alerted Master Jobbernole to the possible reason for her presence and its consequences . |
| 4 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 5 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 6 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
| 7 | She had found herself in the safe nook between Fenna 's sail-like wing and the crenellated and fantastic fortress of his spine . |
| 8 | Although she had moulded herself into the demure and restrained wife suitable to Stephen 's position , deep down she still possessed the wild spirits which had led her into Sir William Forster 's arms . |
| 9 | Amy had thrown herself into the social round , while Catherine had begun a career in journalism . |
| 10 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 11 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |