Example sentences of "herself in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
2 | When we arrived , Mary let herself in the front door and we entered the dining room . |
3 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
4 | Maura pushed her way through the adults and stationed herself in the front room next to the table piled high with food . |
5 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
6 | So Rosalba dipped the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread , and laughed all by herself in the cool dark room . |
7 | Encourage her to put herself in the other person 's shoes with explanations and reasons along the lines of : ‘ How would you feel if … ? ’ |
8 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
9 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
10 | Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother . |
11 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
12 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
13 | ‘ At last Bertha managed to reach some big , sweet-smelling myrtle bushes , and she hid herself in the thickest bush . |
14 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
15 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
16 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
17 | Alexandra surveyed herself in the long glass on the wall . |
18 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
19 | Turning to the mirror , she saw herself in the long white silk dress , clinging to her slender body , curving off the shoulders , accentuating her fine collarbones , tight at the waist then flaring out with clouds of taffeta below that made it seem as if she floated rather than walked . |
20 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
21 | Wycliffe lazed in his chair , while Helen lost herself in the zany twilight world of Iris Murdoch . |
22 | Sarah asked the nanny , standing on tip-toe to see herself in the gilt-framed mirror in the hall . |
23 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
24 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
25 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
26 | She found herself in the public library . |
27 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
28 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
29 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
30 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |