Example sentences of "[verb] herself [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm helping to set out the stalls for the hospital bazaar — should be back about midday , ’ she called , as she let herself out of the house . |
| 2 | Then she let herself out of the door and walked through the yard , muttering quietly to Ferry , so that he would know who it was . |
| 3 | Then she let herself out of the farmhouse , and started to walk . |
| 4 | Carolyn let herself out of the french windows and made her way along the trodden track to her garden , now a dug rectangle of some eight by twelve yards , backing on to the wall of Keswick 's warehouse . |
| 5 | After six o'clock , when the cheap rate had started , Karen King let herself out of the side door of Aunt Jane 's bungalow and walked the quarter of a mile to the public call box . |
| 6 | Ashamed of her excess of imagination , she let herself out into the street and covered the few yards to her car under the trees . |
| 7 | As she let herself out into the garden through the kitchen door , she gave a small shiver that had absolutely nothing to do with the autumnal chill in the air . |
| 8 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |
| 9 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 10 | She let herself quietly into the house , and immediately heard the sound of voices coming from the living-room . |
| 11 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 12 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 13 | In her silent way , she had committed herself entirely to a life for art 's sake . |
| 14 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're going to have to do something — because I simply ca n't tell you two imps of mischief apart , ’ Laura muttered , groaning as she levered herself up against the pillows . |
| 16 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 17 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 18 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 19 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 20 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 21 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 22 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 23 | Merrill made a determined effort to pull herself out of the glow induced by the wine and Luke 's compliments . |
| 24 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 25 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 26 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 27 | Although there was no direct reference to the Rose Bowl , Folly found herself part of a group discussing the hypothetical marketing problems of a small floristry business . |
| 28 | As she slipped into the water beside them Rachel was aware that David had thrown a large orange ball into the pool before jumping in himself , and within seconds she found herself part of a noisy , boisterous game of water hand-ball . |
| 29 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 30 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |