Example sentences of "and [verb] herself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie screamed and flung herself against the protective width of Fen 's chest . |
| 2 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 3 | Maura pushed her way through the adults and stationed herself in the front room next to the table piled high with food . |
| 4 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 5 | In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name . |
| 6 | She removed the clinging pink sweater , made famous by the Hollywood Oomph Girl , Lana Turner but which made Sylvia look the part of a streetwalker , and stripped herself of the gaudy , lace-edged cami-knickers she wore beneath . |
| 7 | As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new . |
| 8 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 9 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 10 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 11 | The severity of her discipline — she lived three years on bread and water , sometimes went barefoot to church in winter and prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church during weather so cold that the wine froze in the chalice during Mass — is typical of these women . |
| 12 | Ace switched on the spacewalk jets and launched herself through the widening yawn of the doors . |
| 13 | The girl in the conservatory reached out a hand and flicked the switch , lighting them the last few yards , and floodlighting herself at the same time . |
| 14 | Anne , what a lovely story , although it was n't very lovely , was it , when Aunty May came round for Christmas , and inflicted herself upon the whole family , with her own particular brand of misery ? |