Example sentences of "herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of minutes Phoebe recovered her breath ; she pushed herself off the wall with her hands and went through the stairwell doorway into the green-painted corridor . |
| 2 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 3 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 4 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 5 | Dolly made herself heard again , having swung herself off the bed to hop to the door of the bedroom . |
| 6 | She swung herself off the couch . |
| 7 | She danced on , oblivious , then he must have said something , and she danced seductively , fluidly , to the edge of the roof , hips moving slow , a big smile on her face as she looked down at Lewis , then she threw herself off the roof . |
| 8 | She swung herself off the bed and padded , naked , across to the wardrobe , hesitating there for a second . |
| 9 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 10 | She launched herself off the chair and I was thinking oh yes , this is it , come to me you gorgeous creature . |
| 11 | Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord . |
| 12 | To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots . |
| 13 | Eventually this dear girl gets herself off the cash desk right and where does she find them ? |
| 14 | Then crouching low , she squeezed herself through the hens ' low archway , and into the dark warm gloom of their hut . |
| 15 | He was followed by a head and a paw as the now enraged Rosie attempted to squeeze herself through the same opening . |
| 16 | Panting , heart pounding , he stood back from the door and waited , safe in the knowledge that the dog was too big to squeeze herself through the gap allowed by the safety-chain . |
| 17 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 18 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 19 | She launched herself through the doorway and was safely behind the skip by the time the first bullets rattled against it . |
| 20 | Ace switched on the spacewalk jets and launched herself through the widening yawn of the doors . |
| 21 | He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead . |
| 22 | The doorbell pealed and Julia shot upstairs from the basement , flung herself through the green baize door and then walked slowly and decorously across the black and white tiled hall . |
| 23 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 24 | Hearing the slithering sound behind her she jumped up and pulled herself through the roof . |
| 25 | The final cost of the garden was $5 million , almost entirely financed by herself through the sale of those deceptively decorated polyester sculptures , perfume and furniture . |
| 26 | After Gloria had gone , lying in her cot with nothing to do , nothing to look at , Dot told herself about the hens laying in the country . |
| 27 | Martha busied herself about the household work during our Lord 's visits . |
| 28 | Zerrer like her assistant Margo , who is busying herself about the Centre supervising clients as they get into their goggles , turns out to be , unsurprisingly , a new age devotee , though she cringes at the mention of the words . |
| 29 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 30 | She washed and dried herself between the legs and inserted a fresh tampon . |