Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 2 | However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered . |
| 3 | Her head swam ; she shut her eyes and pressed herself against the wall , fighting to steady herself for the return trip , struggling to contain an urge to vomit . |
| 4 | She wiped the filth out of her eyes and pulled herself into the wreckage of the cockpit . |
| 5 | The day was Thursday , the start of the academic week ; Flavia combed her hair , washed her eyes and marched herself to the tower . |
| 6 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 7 | The music blared out around them — Beatles songs from the Sixties — and for a brief space of time Rachel forgot her worries and allowed herself to be caught up in Belinda 's simple pleasures . |
| 8 | She took the report , went out into the department and threw herself into her work with tight-lipped determination . |
| 9 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 10 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
| 11 | She had time only to park her car and let herself into her flat before he arrived . |
| 12 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 13 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 14 | Perhaps a little fantasy was just what she needed , she decided , mentally preparing to suspend disbelief and abandon herself to whatever awaited her . |
| 15 | Tallis ran to Swimmer of Lakes and flung herself across its back , twisting into a sitting position and quickly flinging a simple rope harness around its neck . |
| 16 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 17 | The severity of her discipline — she lived three years on bread and water , sometimes went barefoot to church in winter and prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church during weather so cold that the wine froze in the chalice during Mass — is typical of these women . |
| 18 | A few yards before the winning post she found yet more courage and stamina and forced herself in front to win by a length . |
| 19 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 20 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 21 | She had a head of flowing auburn hair and carried herself in a self-possessed manner touching on the arrogant . |
| 22 | She went and took a grey pleated skirt from her case and zipped herself into it . |
| 23 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 24 | She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink . |
| 25 | She licked her fingers and applied herself to her beer . |
| 26 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 27 | She had inherited a substantial sum of money from her parents ' estates and devoted herself to works of charity . |
| 28 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 29 | An oriental girl dressed as a matador wrenched off her domino and threw herself at me . |
| 30 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |