Example sentences of "[prep] herself [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes blurred ; she blinked to clear them , and saw a faint reflection of herself swimming in the rock , cast there by the spear-light . |
| 2 | Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater . |
| 3 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 4 | Another vivid picture , this time of herself standing by the ford in fitzAlan 's arms , insinuated itself into Isabel 's mind . |
| 5 | He 'd made no attempt to detain her , she noticed while feeling slightly irritated as she walked along the passage towards her room , but at least she 'd indicated she was not falling over herself to bask in the pleasure of his company . |
| 6 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 7 | When she did this , Ariel hugged her knees and rocked on the ground beside her , singing to herself charms against the spells of Sycorax : her antidote to the old woman 's venom , her hopes for a different life far away from the ferocious spirit of her crooked mother . |
| 8 | Her crisis had passed , leaving her feeling exhausted and somewhat short of breath ; it would not be difficult to allow Mitzi to rehearse her grievances against the male population without herself expanding on the subject , and thus let Mitzi believe that she was in agreement with her . |
| 9 | On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book , Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village . |
| 10 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |