Example sentences of "[verb] herself [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
| 2 | When she 'd finished she got her bag and anorak , checking that she had enough in her purse for bus fare , and let herself out the kitchen door . |
| 3 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 4 | She was calling herself all the names under the sun , but it made no difference . |
| 5 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , she 's certainly not drivin' herself all the way down through Chile to Punta Arenas . |
| 7 | When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room . |
| 8 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 9 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |