Example sentences of "herself into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
| 2 | Jay wrenched herself into the present . |
| 3 | But then I realised you had joined the queue of dolour — I take it from your sparkling eyes that Lucy 's dropped her drawers and flung herself into sapphic bliss ? ’ |
| 4 | Rita let herself into the house with the Yale . |
| 5 | She took her oilskin from the hook on the back door , buttoned herself into it and stepped out , still undetected . |
| 6 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 7 | She is launching herself into Europe with at least as much conviction as any other British businessperson has so far shown . |
| 8 | She had promoted herself into the film 's second editor , and slowed it down to normal at the bits she liked , and thought we would appreciate . |
| 9 | She tried to jolly herself into enthusiasm . |
| 10 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 11 | The trouble is the more she spreads herself into showbusiness , the more bland she will become . |
| 12 | Any whiff of scandal had evaporated , and she now threw herself into a hectic work schedule . |
| 13 | But there is no reason for Britain to differentiate herself into the sidelines . |
| 14 | She poured herself into self-sacrifice now for another cause — the people . |
| 15 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 16 | With a slight change of posture — a lift of the head , a straightening of the already straight back , that little proud look — she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind . |
| 17 | She launched herself into the tiny room , crouching , arms spread wide , ready to grab Gazzer if he made a dash for the door . |
| 18 | With an immense effort of will she goaded herself into activity , striking life into her numbed brain , forcing limbs as heavy as wet sand , to respond . |
| 19 | Ma heaved herself into the armchair . |
| 20 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 21 | After the high energy opening of ‘ The Locomotion ’ Kylie launched herself into a raunchy version of her second bit hit ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 22 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 23 | She laughed herself into a fit of coughing . |
| 24 | Filled with a restless , fevered energy that set every nerve twangling and pumped her blood full of adrenalin , Evelyn threw herself into her work as if the sheer force of her will could drive the hands of the clock round more swiftly . |
| 25 | ‘ Does n't it disgust you to be lying around at home while your child works herself into an early grave ? ’ |
| 26 | Yeats watched , with an appalled fascination , as she threw herself into ‘ a joyous and self-forgetting condition of political hate ’ . |
| 27 | Alexia was sobbing gently in the wings , stifling herself into silence . |
| 28 | She locked herself into a cubicle and took a leak . |
| 29 | She will see and hear for herself into what keys they lead . |
| 30 | Amy had thrown herself into the social round , while Catherine had begun a career in journalism . |