Example sentences of "herself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dumped herself on the Chesterfield beside him and ripped open her own packet , noisily . |
| 2 | Sara dumped herself on the sofa . |
| 3 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 6 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 9 | She went over and perched herself on the ottoman at his feet . |
| 10 | She had introduced herself on the doorstep , often been invited in and asked the tenants to let her know if they had any problems with which she could help . |
| 11 | Of course , this is not all there is to life , and Hildamay finds true contentment by adopting a nine-year-old girl who introduces herself on the tube . |
| 12 | She flung herself on the bed in a paroxysm of weeping , wailing like an animal in pain — until Mrs Taylor came running , and took her in her arms . |
| 13 | ‘ Joan , it will all turn out for the best — I know it will , ’ Anne assured her , seating herself on the edge of the bed . |
| 14 | At the end of the two days , Anne found her appetite and her voice — and herself on the way to a nunnery . |
| 15 | Dinah made her way through the bedroom , flung herself on the dreadful bed , and wept . |
| 16 | She settled herself on the carpet and the fine cotton was stacked beside her . |
| 17 | She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then . |
| 18 | Settling herself on the window seat , Vi shook her head . |
| 19 | Rushing up to her room , Constance flung herself on the bed and tried to cry . |
| 20 | Almost as if leading a child , they took the woman from the room , and the Mother Superior , herself on the point of leaving , turned and looked towards where Millie was still standing riveted to the spot . |
| 21 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 22 | When she had lifted it , she prostrated herself on the ground and peered into the blackness below with the help of the well-provided villa 's torch . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 25 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 26 | She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink . |
| 27 | From the window , Buzz could see Clare sunning herself on the terrace below . |
| 28 | Miranda , wearing a green bikini , sunned herself on the south terrace . |
| 29 | Buzz settled herself on the upright chair by Elinor 's bed , firmly clasping her old-fashioned handbag on her lap . |
| 30 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |