Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] herself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 2 | She makes a rude gesture , involving several hypothetical orifices , then strides over to plant herself on the arm of Rainbow 's chair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 6 | She began to yell furiously , then threw herself on the ground , red-faced with rage , stamping her feet and screwing up her eyes . |
| 7 | And came again to seat herself on the High Throne . |