Example sentences of "herself [adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly she lowered herself on to a dead log and sat there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 4 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 5 | Rosa flung herself over to the other side of the bed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |