Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] on her " in BNC.

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1 Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself .
2 She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness .
3 She prided herself on her ability to sift through the most innocent conversations and turn them into major scandals .
4 She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather .
5 Before Isabel had taken another breath she found herself on her back , gazing up at him bemusedly .
6 She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow .
7 She raised herself on her elbows , pushed her thighs forward , and parted her legs as wide as if she were going to give birth .
8 She raised herself on her toes , and was very aware that his target , her posterior , rose another few provocative inches , presenting her comely rump as a full rising moon .
9 She congratulated herself on her improving powers of deduction .
10 She pinched herself on her left biceps and yelped with pain .
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