Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pn reflx] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Run off with her and the money which she sold herself for ? ’ |
| 2 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |
| 3 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 4 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 5 | Then she scolded herself for getting carried away , when she should be preparing how best to approach her mother over the subject of Elaine . |
| 6 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 7 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 8 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 9 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 10 | She hated herself for it , and went on and on , convinced that her only defence was to make Rachel throw her out again , and Rachel refused to be provoked . |
| 11 | She hated herself for falling in love so easily with her handsome husband , who , she now realized , could not be trusted . |
| 12 | She hated herself for being impressed and frightened by London , but she was impressed and frightened all the same . |
| 13 | She hated herself for wanting to know , but the words just seemed to leap out . |
| 14 | She hated herself for doubting him . |
| 15 | It was a long way to Hackballs Cross , and she hated herself for going , spat hatred at herself as she threw the Metro southwards . |
| 16 | Her voice was like thin sharp ice , but not cold enough to fully hide the pain , and she hated herself for letting him hear it . |
| 17 | She hated herself for that , bringing herself down to a spiteful , vengeful , ‘ woman scorned ’ level . |
| 18 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 19 | But most of all she hated herself for awakening in the darkness night after night , with Nicolo 's name on her lips and tears on her cheeks . |
| 20 | She hated herself for it , her pride and her need constantly at war , but finally by lunchtime her need won . |
| 21 | She hated herself for backing down , but what could she do ? |
| 22 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 23 | She blamed herself for everything that had happened . |
| 24 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 25 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 26 | Bernice found herself unable to look away , inexorably drawn to the guilt and sadness she saw in Cheryl 's face , and which she blamed herself for . |
| 27 | She blamed herself for trusting him to wait , for not refusing to go to Sniffy without the van keys in her possession . |
| 28 | She cursed herself for spoiling the closeness between them . |
| 29 | It moved slowly and she cursed herself for having forgotten her gloves and scarf . |
| 30 | Silently she cursed herself for being such a damned fool . |