Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] herself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Austen rather prides herself on writing on things with a fairly restricted area of interest , whereas George Eliot , on the other hand , I think is interested to write about all sorts of things . |
| 2 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 3 | A seventeen year old , bright and intelligent enough to put herself on an equal footing with her father . |
| 4 | She makes a rude gesture , involving several hypothetical orifices , then strides over to plant herself on the arm of Rainbow 's chair . |
| 5 | ‘ The Queen 's thousands of miles away and she 's not stirring herself on account of Jamaica , of that you can be sure . ’ |
| 6 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 7 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 8 | She , who had always prided herself on total moral and material independence . |
| 9 | And Sally had always prided herself on being sensible , if nothing else . |
| 10 | She was a grown woman and she had always prided herself on her common sense , but all the same … |
| 11 | She had always prided herself on her resoluteness and fortitude but there was one fear she had never managed to conquer — a fear of rats which dated back to an incident when she was three years old . |
| 12 | She 'd always prided herself on her inner strength . |
| 13 | In truth , she 'd never reacted to male advances with such venom before — in fact she 'd always prided herself on being able to stay cool . |
| 14 | She had always prided herself on her calm , her coolness under pressure , yet twenty minutes of Luke Calder 's company and she was ready to act like a harpy ! |
| 15 | She — who 'd always prided herself on her clear , incisive brain — was now finding that her thought processes seemed to be completely jammed . |
| 16 | She had always prided herself on her tolerance and open-mindedness — how dared he call her bigoted ? |
| 17 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 18 | No older girl has ever pissed herself on account of Laverne before . |
| 19 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 20 | In Faye 's first painting , she had turned out so wraithlike and ethereal that she had secretly weighed herself on Faye 's bathroom scales to make sure she still came in at fifty-three kilograms . |
| 21 | She began to yell furiously , then threw herself on the ground , red-faced with rage , stamping her feet and screwing up her eyes . |
| 22 | As she was about to say , ‘ I 'll tell the mistress you 've come , ’ there was a scampering of feet on the stairs , and Annabel almost threw herself on Millie , crying , ‘ Oh ! how lovely ! |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's how I feel about these plans , now , after … ’ she faltered a second and then forced herself on ‘ … after everything . |
| 24 | And came again to seat herself on the High Throne . |
| 25 | She has yet to prove herself on a large stage . |