Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 2 | Did he know exactly the kind of dilemma she found herself in ? |
| 3 | Out there in the cold snow Dane Jacobsen had stripped away some of the barriers she protected herself with . |
| 4 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 5 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 6 | There was a tight , hard knot in her stomach that seemed to preclude eating , but in a gesture of defiance she helped herself to a platter of seafood . |
| 7 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 8 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 9 | At the grand banquet she toasted herself in champagne owing to confusion . |
| 10 | At this point she accused herself of exaggeration and made some boring remark about the countryside . |
| 11 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 12 | For two years she applied herself to her studies with an energy no one had suspected she possessed . |
| 13 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 14 | With a yell she thrust herself at their leader . |
| 15 | After a while she brought herself under control . |
| 16 | After a while she soothed herself with her favourite fantasy ; by a succession of miracles she grew divinely tall , with long , sinewy , racehorse kind of legs and a small straight nose of classic proportions . |
| 17 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 18 | On one occasion she threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace while on another she slashed at her wrists with a razor blade . |
| 19 | As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she sees herself as a facilitator for the Vice-Chancellor , the University 's Chief Executive . |
| 20 | Before Isabel had taken another breath she found herself on her back , gazing up at him bemusedly . |
| 21 | With this foot and all the solidity and strength of her right leg she levered herself into a standing position . |
| 22 | With a great effort she immersed herself in her work and it was n't until Myra put her head round the door that she realised how quickly the time had gone . |
| 23 | The injury to her knee she did herself by falling against a tree in the dark . ’ |
| 24 | Close to dawn she forced herself into bed , but she was still wide-eyed when the maid came in with an early-morning cup of tea . |
| 25 | For several blissful seconds she abandoned herself to his kiss , and to all the incredible , startling sensations exploding inside her . |
| 26 | She tempered her approach to each medium like a professional : for newspaper journalists she spoke slowly in short , simple generalities ; on television she smiled a lot and complimented her opponents on the intelligence of their remarks ; on radio she allowed herself to be profound , even vulnerable . |
| 27 | Without further ado she busied herself in pulling her three-quarter-length beige cotton sock down from beneath her trouser leg , and down below her ankle . |
| 28 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 29 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 30 | The blue eyes seemed to bore into her , penetrating through the defensive layers she surrounded herself with . |