Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 2 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 3 | Evelyn had wrought herself up to such a pitch that she was utterly unprepared for this turn of events . |
| 4 | While the others stood and gawped , she had already pushed herself over to the storage lockers and was busy tossing the flimsy emergency spacesuits over . |
| 5 | Ruth had made herself up like a vampire from a horror film she had perhaps contrived to see , or some illustration in a library book . |
| 6 | She had hauled herself out of bed about twenty minutes ago when she 'd heard the doorbell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's been reckon she must have locked herself up in the dark . |
| 9 | Robyn thought , remembering the way she had flung herself out of the house , the agony of driving home , the touch and taste of him haunting her down every mile of motorway … the floods of tears … |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 12 | However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing . |
| 13 | He looked frightening and she had a momentary sensation of having caged herself in with an angry lion . |
| 14 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 15 | She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further . |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't understand how Constance has cut herself off from all her friends . |
| 17 | Next moment Perdita , streaking down the field , had thrown herself out of the saddle and clinging with her left hand round Hermia 's damp hot neck , hooked Randy as the final bell tolled for South Sussex . |
| 18 | They lost a patient , a young woman in her twenties who had thrown herself out of a car at speed to get away from her husband . |
| 19 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 20 | The Lord had n't dealt bitterly with her , she had gone out of God 's will , she had taken herself out of the covering of God 's protection and blessing . |
| 21 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 22 | Unlike his wife , who had taken herself off to bed like one of the heroines in the penny dramas , he , James Grierson , was going to do something . |
| 23 | She could have taken herself off to the local Italian with her child and a book of her own , for Kate also likes reading though her tastes are less morbific . |
| 24 | Because she has worked herself up into a pitiful state of fear and tension , this does not mean that her suffering is not real . |
| 25 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 26 | I crawl , I kiss your arse , do everything — ’ She had worked herself up into a state of almost incoherent fury , like a child in a tantrum , tears streaming down her face and her whole body shaking in a sort of passion as she suddenly flew at him , clawing with her nails . |
| 27 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 28 | In order to pay back , to compensate Ethel Mitchell , she had put herself up to her neck in debt . |
| 29 | She has put she 's put herself down for one day at the end of her accounts to learn about accountancy and as Ian pointed out , it 's it 's it 's not a lot . |
| 30 | In these matters Emilia Frere knew more than she , for the woman had crossed the threshold of the married state ; she had delivered herself over to the meeting of the flesh as Louisa had not been called upon to do ; she had experienced what the uninitiate could only surmise . |