Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ A wife is not a servant — though she ought to concern herself with your comfort , it is true . ’ |
| 2 | But if she feels like she wants extra time I think she ought to allow herself extra time |
| 3 | A woman 's attitudes to the housewife role may be positive — she may feel herself to be a housewife , and agree with the idea that housewifery is an appropriate role for women , but she may at the same time dislike doing housework . |
| 4 | She may think herself wasted in a world where good help is hard to find . |
| 5 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 6 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 7 | Mothers can find themselves preparing three different meals in an evening to cater for different tastes in the family or she may find herself offering three or four different menus to the child , all of which are rejected and the food thrown away . |
| 8 | Linguistic research which was meant to help women understand and change their reality is being used here to hurt them , if only by creating in the mind of the female reader one more problem , a linguistic inadequacy for which she must blame herself . |
| 9 | In his frustration and anger , he had told her that she must give herself as well before he would take them . |
| 10 | Isobel refused one , and watched him , knowing something was wrong , longing to speak , to burst out with her news , and knowing she must make herself wait . |
| 11 | She must stir herself , Mr Frere , and if she will not , then you must stir her . ’ |
| 12 | She can not afford to make a mistake so she must leave herself to the administrations of Lady G , June 's of Hamilton or Gina Smart in Ayr . |
| 13 | It was to be expected , and she knew she must show herself to be more efficient in future . |
| 14 | She must conduct herself as though she was in complete control . |
| 15 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 16 | She must wake herself up . |
| 17 | She must pull herself together , make an effort . |
| 18 | She told herself that she must confine herself to anger only , but it was easier said than done . |
| 19 | She must hone herself into the likeness of her beloved stiletto . |
| 20 | What she must teach herself to do was to stop caring , learn to stand up for herself . |
| 21 | When a woman has finished her menstrual period and has counted seven days when no fresh bleeding has been apparent , she must immerse herself in a mikva before sexual relations with her husband can resume . |
| 22 | She had n't eaten the spinach , and in doing so created a martyrdom ; now she must restrain herself from the agonizing satisfaction of telling Maman all the truth , thus getting Aunt Tossie into dreadful trouble . |
| 23 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 24 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 25 | Why , I only restrained myself because she 's a female , she should think herself lucky . |
| 26 | She wants her image ‘ sorted out ’ before she signs a deal to prevent any manipulation , to ensure no one tells her how she should present herself to the record-buying public . |
| 27 | And what was it but deception that she should present herself at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and allow him to think she was her sister ? |
| 28 | Sitting opposite her , he indicated that she should help herself . |
| 29 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 30 | She should buy herself a new frock and set her cap at someone else . |