Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not sitting next to each other , luckily , but he found himself opposite her accusing face over drinks and remembered the things he 'd last said to her . |
| 2 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 3 | Sylvia found herself with her naked slit facing the ceiling , and felt his fingers busily parting her thick cunt-lips . |
| 4 | Two years on , Ruth made yet another bid to launch herself into her chosen career : |
| 5 | He gave him a hand with a large oil drum , and then another , as Nell , tearing herself from her appointed task , dragged over a bench . |
| 6 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 7 | She drew herself to her full height . |
| 8 | Caroline drew herself to her full height . |
| 9 | He passed one to Polly but , instead of taking over the helm again , seated himself in her usual corner of the cockpit , stretching his long legs out and crossing his ankles . |
| 10 | Before it grew too chilly she climbed out and dried herself on her dirty shirt before dressing . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been on stage every night , ’ she said sharply , surprising herself with her own effrontery at speaking that way to Karl . |
| 12 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 13 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 14 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 15 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 16 | It would have to be the chapel , Isabel decided , scolding herself for her cowardly hesitation . |
| 17 | Anne overdosed alone in her penthouse , describing herself in her last note as just another dead junkie . ’ |
| 18 | After a while she soothed herself with her favourite fantasy ; by a succession of miracles she grew divinely tall , with long , sinewy , racehorse kind of legs and a small straight nose of classic proportions . |
| 19 | The man gave no indication that he had heard , and she frowned , a small , thin line etching itself into her smooth brow . |
| 20 | She was trembling all over , holding on to the car door for support , despising herself for her own weakness . |
| 21 | Maybe , she thought with an acrobatic leap of logic , this was by way of telling her that she should start acclimatising herself to her old way of life , because that was where she would be in less than two days ' time . |
| 22 | A PSYCHIATRIC hospital patient hanged herself in her own room , an inquest heard . |
| 23 | She was more than happy to busy herself with her new home . |
| 24 | Chiding herself for her reflex reaction of fear , Meryl strode to the window and examined the catch . |
| 25 | She was suffering dreadfully from morning sickness , she was haunted by Camilla Parker-Bowles and she was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new position and new family . |
| 26 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 27 | Elizabeth Woodville sat up and gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son . |
| 28 | ‘ If she is so proud of herself , why did n't she call herself by her original name ? ’ |
| 29 | She covered herself in her forty-one-year-old embarrassment . |
| 30 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |