Example sentences of "herself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seventeen year old , bright and intelligent enough to put herself on an equal footing with her father . |
| 2 | They co-ordinated diaries and Jay congratulated herself on refusing to smile . |
| 3 | Let Lucy articulate , lay herself on whatever uncomfortable line it was that she had elected to draw . |
| 4 | She dumped herself on the Chesterfield beside him and ripped open her own packet , noisily . |
| 5 | Sara dumped herself on the sofa . |
| 6 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 7 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher prides herself on her reputation as an ‘ Iron Lady ’ . |
| 9 | Jan 's pure voice rings out on quiet tracks such as Denim , Blue and Going Nowhere , accompanied either by fellow songwriter Tony Kirkham on acoustic guitar or by herself on piano . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The little deer was seen staggering in a distressed and bloated condition , captured with difficulty and taken to a vet who pumped fermented corn from the stomach — presumably the fawn had gorged herself on pheasant feed . |
| 12 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 13 | She , who prided herself on her intelligence ! |
| 14 | She , who had always prided herself on total moral and material independence . |
| 15 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 16 | From observing Star Eye , he thought she 'd modelled herself on Cabochon : she even sat like him and had started scraping her hair back into a ponytail , even though it was n't really long enough yet . |
| 17 | Leila threw herself on Quincx , gabbling about what happened . |
| 18 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 19 | Like Michael Jackson , Madonna and George Michael before her , Kylie chose the world 's second most important pop market to launch herself on a planet desperate to see her perform . |
| 20 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 21 | Rose raised herself on one elbow and addressed the darkness in a fierce whisper . |
| 22 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 23 | Ellen Harker seated herself on one of the crates thoughtfully provided by Mother Bombie , drew a gentle breath and began : |
| 24 | She has yet to prove herself on a large stage . |
| 25 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
| 26 | Jimmy 's wife prided herself on her barracuda curry , which would make a change from lobster . |
| 27 | When Maggie had perched herself on one she said , Does this mean I 'm being interviewed ? ’ |
| 28 | She finds herself on a dual carriageway , almost a motorway , raised above the level of the neighbouring houses , and with no apparent exits . |
| 29 | There was an essay by Maud Bailey herself on ‘ Melusina , Builder of Cities : a Subversive Female Cosmogony . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The Queen 's thousands of miles away and she 's not stirring herself on account of Jamaica , of that you can be sure . ’ |