Example sentences of "she [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 2 | I expect she kicks herself for giving him those special facilities now , because it 's sure to be one of those jaw-breaking pieces of unreadability Americans produce . |
| 3 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 4 | She flung herself into his arms and looked up imploringly . |
| 5 | She flung herself into her room and began to pack frantically , wanting to cry with rage and shame . |
| 6 | She flung herself into Matthew 's arms . |
| 7 | She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand . |
| 8 | She flung herself on Wexford , yelping frenetically , and when he pushed her away , ran round him in circles , wildly gyrating her tail and flapping her knitted ears . |
| 9 | She flung herself on the bed in a paroxysm of weeping , wailing like an animal in pain — until Mrs Taylor came running , and took her in her arms . |
| 10 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 11 | She flung herself on him . |
| 12 | She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date . |
| 13 | She flung herself at friendship and blurted her thoughts and feelings , jokes and secrets till she had no flora in the lining of her inner spaces to help her absorb her experiences slowly , nutritiously . |
| 14 | She flung herself across the room , beating helplessly on the door , whispering his name over and over as if the force of her desire would bring him back . |
| 15 | She flung herself from her horse and smothered the burning body with her black cloak . |
| 16 | She flung herself upon him , going down on her knees to kiss the ramrod . |
| 17 | She flung herself upon Silas , grasping his arms as she gazed up into his face , and despite the presence of Lucy and Jean she wailed contritely , ‘ Silas , darling — I 'm so sorry . |
| 18 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
| 20 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 21 | Gingerly , she lowered herself onto the wall , and sat astride its smooth apex , still partially concealed by overhanging branches from the tree . |
| 22 | For two years she applied herself to her studies with an energy no one had suspected she possessed . |
| 23 | Rosalba prayed , often , these days while she waited for Tommaso 's return to Rupe and the walk they would take together , as he had told Caterina they would , and she applied herself to acquiring those skills at crochet , at knitting , at pattern cutting and sewing that Fantina learned from her sisters , who were themselves taught by Auntie Rosa , later , in America . |
| 24 | She applied herself to what she had decided was a prototype . |
| 25 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 26 | She seated herself at the desk . |
| 27 | At two o'clock she seated herself at a window-table in a restaurant overlooking the Nile , near where the houseboat was moored . |
| 28 | She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room . |
| 29 | Then she seated herself opposite him , and drew forward a small table , on which were two packs of cards . |
| 30 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |