Example sentences of "herself [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 2 | She pushed herself away again as soon as the lights came on , shook her head . |
| 3 | The mixture of incomprehensible lunacy and clear truth was as surreal as the life she was living ; treading a thin line between the sharks in her room and Bryony , waiting for those times of distant peace , when she could watch the moving clouds through her window in simple tranquillity ; descending nightly into drugged black sleep , and carefully , anxiously behaving herself as inconspicuously as possible in front of the inhabitants of the house . |
| 4 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |
| 5 | Oh well , she could n't drag herself as far as the Rex . |
| 6 | Apparently , the girl was an attractive woman and she no doubt knew how to present herself as temptingly as possible , They exchanged what Miller describes as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ about money and walked on together up the by now rapidly dusking street . |
| 7 | She would have described herself quite objectively as aged 35 and looking neither older nor younger , height 5 feet 4 and usually just under nine stone with a figure that was well kept rather than dramatic . |
| 8 | Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector . |