Example sentences of "[verb] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 2 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 3 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 4 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 5 | Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s . |
| 6 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 7 | Enticed by the exotic smells issuing from a nearby many-storeyed building , she crossed the threshold to find herself on the ground floor of a gourmet 's paradise . |
| 8 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 9 | A quick discussion and it was agreed ; awakening to find herself in a coffin in that house of death could cause the poor girl to really die of fright . |
| 10 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 11 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 12 | John Williams , prosecuting , said she woke up to find herself in a hotel room with her hands tied behind her back . |
| 13 | Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother . |
| 14 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |
| 15 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 16 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 17 | Rita let herself into the house with the Yale . |
| 18 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 19 | She let herself into the kitchen , where young Joe Burns had asked about her . |
| 20 | When she let herself into the flat , Ralph was waiting in the hall . |
| 21 | She let herself into the kitchen and sank into a chair before the fire that urgently needed mending . |
| 22 | The girl was carrying a latchkey ; she let herself into the cabin . |
| 23 | She let herself into the house , and made herself a cup of tea . |
| 24 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 25 | There was no one about when she let herself into the house , and thankfully she went quietly up to her room . |
| 26 | When we arrived , Mary let herself in the front door and we entered the dining room . |
| 27 | She used her feet , dancing away and flying back , anchoring herself to the broken lamp-post as she launched four rapid kicks to the Daughter 's torso . |
| 28 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A bride must immerse herself in a mikva before her wedding . |