Example sentences of "herself [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't want her to chuck herself off a bridge , so I 've let her have one of my rooms . ’ |
| 2 | Dolly made herself heard again , having swung herself off the bed to hop to the door of the bedroom . |
| 3 | She swung herself off the bed and padded , naked , across to the wardrobe , hesitating there for a second . |
| 4 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 5 | After a couple of minutes Phoebe recovered her breath ; she pushed herself off the wall with her hands and went through the stairwell doorway into the green-painted corridor . |
| 6 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 7 | Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord . |
| 8 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 9 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 10 | She danced on , oblivious , then he must have said something , and she danced seductively , fluidly , to the edge of the roof , hips moving slow , a big smile on her face as she looked down at Lewis , then she threw herself off the roof . |
| 11 | To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots . |
| 12 | Eventually this dear girl gets herself off the cash desk right and where does she find them ? |
| 13 | She swung herself off the couch . |
| 14 | She launched herself off the chair and I was thinking oh yes , this is it , come to me you gorgeous creature . |
| 15 | She abandoned the tricksy paths , forcing herself through a tunnel between purple rhododendrons , trying not to leave footprints on the soil . |
| 16 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 17 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 18 | He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead . |
| 19 | Hearing the slithering sound behind her she jumped up and pulled herself through the roof . |
| 20 | The final cost of the garden was $5 million , almost entirely financed by herself through the sale of those deceptively decorated polyester sculptures , perfume and furniture . |
| 21 | Panting , heart pounding , he stood back from the door and waited , safe in the knowledge that the dog was too big to squeeze herself through the gap allowed by the safety-chain . |
| 22 | She launched herself through the doorway and was safely behind the skip by the time the first bullets rattled against it . |
| 23 | Every day during the trial Tanya Probyn 's mother , Mrs Jackie May , has listened to witnesses , and gave evidence herself about a row between her daughter and Probyn . |
| 24 | Martha busied herself about the household work during our Lord 's visits . |
| 25 | Zerrer like her assistant Margo , who is busying herself about the Centre supervising clients as they get into their goggles , turns out to be , unsurprisingly , a new age devotee , though she cringes at the mention of the words . |
| 26 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 27 | Melissa led the way , easing herself between the car and an assortment of garden implements ranged along the wall . |
| 28 | The baby had been very demanding lately , and after trying to divide herself between the shop and the child she felt drained of energy . |
| 29 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 30 | As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she sees herself as a facilitator for the Vice-Chancellor , the University 's Chief Executive . |