Example sentences of "[verb] herself back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 3 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 4 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 5 | Her voice ended in a shrill scream , as she threw herself back on the table and flung open her legs . |
| 6 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |
| 7 | She got herself back to the lodging somehow . |
| 8 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 9 | She pulled herself back to the point , assuming once more an expression of sobriety . |
| 10 | She stood up and thought herself back into the Mayor 's office . |
| 11 | Oh , yes — yes , of course , Belinda , ’ she said , dragging herself back to the present . |
| 12 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 13 | Finding herself back in the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken lost no time in looking down the microscope again . |
| 14 | But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream . |
| 15 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 16 | She was working herself back into a rage . |
| 17 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 18 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |