Example sentences of "she [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand .
2 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 .
3 She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 Gingerly , she lowered herself onto the wall , and sat astride its smooth apex , still partially concealed by overhanging branches from the tree .
8 She seated herself at the desk .
9 She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room .
10 Then she seated herself on the edge of the bed and , breathing deeply , raised the phone up to her ear .
11 ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’
12 She seated herself by the fireplace , and motioned the two men to sit .
13 She seated herself in the bay window and said to George , ‘ Are you not supposed to be at Cambridge ?
14 She seated herself in the row in front of me , but before she did so she looked round , perhaps to see if after all there was anyone present whom she recognised .
15 On 11 February 1963 she gassed herself in the flat .
16 Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ?
17 She draped herself round the doctor and adopted a childish air .
18 At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report .
19 Alone in the dining room , having eaten the half-grapefruit set in her place by Curtis , she helped herself from the sideboard to fish pie cooked by Mrs Files .
20 She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then .
21 She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house .
22 Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape .
23 Whether consciously or unconsciously , she found herself beside the ground where the cottage she had bought with Ryan had once stood .
24 Here the lane ended , and she found herself by the Green , facing the tiny weather-beaten church .
25 The South African , once ranked in the world 's top 300 , decided to enter when she found herself in the north west for a three-months summer stay with her boyfriend 's family in Bolton , but was never seriously tested as Benmnett fell to her second consecutive defeat in the final .
26 Almost without knowing how she got there , she found herself in the garden .
27 Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback .
28 The girl was carrying a latchkey ; she let herself into the cabin .
29 She let herself into the kitchen , where young Joe Burns had asked about her .
30 She let herself into the kitchen and sank into a chair before the fire that urgently needed mending .
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