Example sentences of "[verb] herself [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 2 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 3 | Her voice ended in a shrill scream , as she threw herself back on the table and flung open her legs . |
| 4 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |
| 5 | She threw herself down on the sofa , and slept . |
| 6 | She threw herself down on the bed and started crying wildly . |
| 7 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 8 | She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks . |
| 9 | She peeled off her wrap , threw herself down on the bunk and gloomily contemplated the future . |
| 10 | ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed . |
| 11 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 12 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |
| 13 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 14 | Felicity flung herself down on the sacrificial stone , opening wide her legs , arching her back , so that her pudendum rose in the air like some nocturnal flower . |
| 15 | He left , and Fran flung herself down on the bed , pummelling the pillow with her fists in a sudden explosion of temper . |
| 16 | She pulled herself up on the bed and , kneeling in such a way that George could see her breasts to their best advantage , took his phallus into her mouth . |
| 17 | Big Momma settled herself down on the ceiling of the bathroom in number 31 , St George 's Road , Solihull , Birmingham , England . |
| 18 | Hilda Machin settled herself down on the chair , smiling happily and looking guilelessly at Mr Kronweiser who , if the truth were known , amused her very much . |
| 19 | She spread them out , then settled herself down on the sleeping-bag beside the fire to comb her hair dry . |
| 20 | The women in this case are suspects in their own right , especially if we take notice of that boy , though from what you–say I ca n't see Anna 's mother hauling herself up on the scaffolding behind Benson 's , or making a run for it when the boy turned up . ’ |
| 21 | He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading . |
| 22 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 23 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 24 | She had no energy to swim in the water and pull herself out on the small strip of toilet paper left from the last flushing of the toilet . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Blake ! ’ she said with enthusiasm , going over and plopping herself down on the bench beside him . |
| 26 | She stretched herself out on the sofa , bought in a fit of extravagance from Harrods five years before , admiring the sumptuous material . |