Example sentences of "[verb] herself on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 2 | Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Connie parked herself on a white divan and poured out some black steaming liquid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 7 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 8 | Alina perched herself on the far end of the three-seater . |
| 9 | Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the epistolatory novel by Choderlos de Laclos about sexual gamesmanship among the French aristocracy in the closing decades of the ancient regime , DANGEROUS LIAISONS revolves around the schemes of the malicious , intelligent salon hostess Madame de Merteuil ( Glenn Close ) to revenge herself on a fallen lover by arranging the seduction of his virgin bride . |
| 10 | A seventeen year old , bright and intelligent enough to put herself on an equal footing with her father . |
| 11 | So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . |
| 12 | Dinah made her way through the bedroom , flung herself on the dreadful bed , and wept . |
| 13 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 14 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 15 | She finds herself on a dual carriageway , almost a motorway , raised above the level of the neighbouring houses , and with no apparent exits . |
| 16 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 17 | Buzz settled herself on the upright chair by Elinor 's bed , firmly clasping her old-fashioned handbag on her lap . |
| 18 | She positioned herself on a front bench , laid out her pastels and board , and began drawing under the eyes of the judge , who , be all accounts , turned a shade of puce . |
| 19 | She positioned herself on a front bench , laid out her pastels and board , and began drawing under the eyes of the judge , who , be all accounts , turned a shade of puce . |
| 20 | How natural to bask in the luxury of Concorde , congratulate herself on a triumphant trip , sip a glass of champagne and forget what she had seen . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 23 | And came again to seat herself on the High Throne . |
| 24 | In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster . |
| 25 | The old lady sat herself on the red plush sofa and behind her the woodwork of the grand piano gleamed in the dim light . |
| 26 | She has yet to prove herself on a large stage . |