Example sentences of "herself [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 2 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 3 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 4 | Feeling less athletic , in fact weak and drained all over , she lowered herself slowly into the cool water . |
| 5 | He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading . |
| 6 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 7 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 8 | Felicity flung herself down on the sacrificial stone , opening wide her legs , arching her back , so that her pudendum rose in the air like some nocturnal flower . |
| 9 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 10 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 11 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 12 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |
| 13 | Scarlet despised her methods , as she knew Clarissa would despise hers , for Scarlet agitated herself only about the nutritional content of food and held in contempt the misplaced aestheticism of the lily-contoured table napkin . |
| 14 | An old woman telling me the story of her life shat herself halfway through the Second World War . |
| 15 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 16 | It was impossible to distance herself physically in the small room — doing so mentally was the next best thing . |
| 17 | Rosa flung herself over to the other side of the bed . |
| 18 | Easing the damp khaki cotton of her culotte suit away from her perspiring skin , she drained the glass of juice and dragged herself away from the mesmerising sight of the turquoise water and army of waving coconut palms . |
| 19 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 20 | She affiliated herself more with the opposing camp of Impressionism — when a female caller at her studio who hoped to have a portrait done told Walker that she was regarded as having a ‘ Burne-Jones-face ’ Walker replied , ‘ what a damn sickly sort of face to have ! ’ 20 However , despite this aversion and the fact that her own women do not resemble the Pre-Raphaelite type , in her attitude towards her women there is much that is similar . |
| 21 | She could have taken herself off to the local Italian with her child and a book of her own , for Kate also likes reading though her tastes are less morbific . |
| 22 | She stared grimly ahead , carefully shutting herself off from the cold wind that suddenly blew around her heart . |
| 23 | Daalny stood tense and at a loss for one moment , before she flung herself bodily into the open doorway , as though she feared the door might be slammed again before she could prevent , though Cadfael made no move . |
| 24 | She unfolded herself carefully from the prickly bushes and rose to her feet . |
| 25 | ‘ I locked that ! ’ thought Marie , hauling herself up into the dim interior . |
| 26 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 27 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 28 | Then , as he stirred , her body came alive and at last , matching the rhythm of his , she once more gave herself up to the unashamed pleasure of loving and being loved by him . |
| 29 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 30 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |