Example sentences of "[verb] herself down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 2 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 3 | She threw herself down on the sofa , and slept . |
| 4 | She threw herself down on the bed and started crying wildly . |
| 5 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 6 | She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks . |
| 7 | She peeled off her wrap , threw herself down on the bunk and gloomily contemplated the future . |
| 8 | ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed . |
| 9 | She threw herself down at her desk and read Nicola 's note through yet again , the sparkle of excitement in her eyes . |
| 10 | Bathsheba walked up and down , crying and whispering to herself , then threw herself down by the road , exhausted . |
| 11 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 12 | In spite of having sponged herself down in cold water to close the pores , and liberally applied powdered chalk to absorb the perspiration , she could feel the rivulets of sweat running down her back and the insides of her thighs . |
| 13 | Caro nodded , consciously slowing herself down to Clare 's pace . |
| 14 | Willingly or unwillingly , she had bound herself down to a copy book with a fidelity that approaches , and this particularly in her most abstract canvases , the photographic … |
| 15 | Hatchet-faced , tough as the city 's granite , Yevdoxia plumped herself down at Anna 's side . |
| 16 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 17 | Mrs Totteridge swung herself down from the horse 's back and strode to the Range Rover . |
| 18 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 19 | She hated herself for that , bringing herself down to a spiteful , vengeful , ‘ woman scorned ’ level . |
| 20 | She flung herself down beside him . |
| 21 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |
| 22 | Dolly limped to the bed and flung herself down on it , stifling hysteria . |
| 23 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She flung herself down on her bunk , burying her face in the pillow . |
| 26 | He left , and Fran flung herself down on the bed , pummelling the pillow with her fists in a sudden explosion of temper . |
| 27 | Then she flung herself down into her pillows and gave way to tears of frustration and rage . |
| 28 | She pointed to the couch , and when Millie was seated she lowered herself down beside her and , taking her hands , said , ‘ You 're frightened of that man are n't you ? ’ |
| 29 | He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh . |
| 30 | Big Momma settled herself down on the ceiling of the bathroom in number 31 , St George 's Road , Solihull , Birmingham , England . |