Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time instead of relying on her own memories stemming from her childhood centred around the home in Priesthouse Lane where she was born and still lives , Miss Rimmer armed herself with a tape recorder and interviewed the town 's oldest residents ranging in age from 70 to 99 . |
| 2 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 3 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 4 | The evidence seemed irrefutable , yet Brenda Plumridge found herself without the support of her rescue society , and was subjected to nothing short of blackmail , while two caring citizens who rescued a pair of stray dogs have been harassed — one to the point of near bankruptcy . |
| 5 | The owner , Petra Zuidinga prides herself in the decor which is her own design and you are guaranteed a warm welcome and comfortable stay . |
| 6 | With a wail Jenny threw herself on the bed and buried her face in her pillow . |
| 7 | Sister Bell threw herself over the body of the child , the repetitive tap of the bullets told us were we being especially dive-bombed , and shot up . |
| 8 | Bernice scrambled madly through the twisted wreckage as Anushkia Smyslov lost herself in the chaos , shouting orders . |
| 9 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 10 | Adele Duncan raised herself from the pillows . |
| 11 | Mrs Ridley settled herself in a green velvet armchair , laying her stick carefully on the floor beside her . |
| 12 | Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks . |
| 13 | The troubled programme has been bedevilled by the tardiness of some countries in implementing the 278 proposals required to remove all internal frontiers to business , and Mrs Thatcher found herself in the slightly unusual position of being praised by Mr Jacques Delors , the president of the European Commission , for being in the vanguard of the reform process . |
| 14 | Count Leo Tolstoy , whose tragic heroine Anna Karenina threw herself under a train , himself died in 1910 at the remote Russian country station of Astapovo . |
| 15 | With a delicate sniff in the direction of a slightly cowed Hester Davis , Mrs Stych enrolled herself as a sleuth in search of an author . |
| 16 | Jocelyn Toynbee restricted herself to the comment that they ( the cucullati ) were ‘ a comic element like the clowns ’ . |
| 17 | While Mary Ann busied herself in the kitchen , and the uncommunicative Emily disappeared , he took in his surroundings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Claudia Yeo nerved herself for a final effort . |
| 20 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 21 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 22 | When Flora Macdonald presented herself at the south ford , before making the hazardous journey across the sands to Benbecula , the soldiers guarding the passage became suspicious and Flora was arrested and closely questioned . |
| 23 | Doctor Maingay regarded herself as a resource for others . |
| 24 | Her thoughts were interrupted by the unusual sight of Fru Møller stationing herself in the middle of the study and clearing her throat . |
| 25 | Where Macbeth had been concealed or opaque to Duncan , and was thus in a superior position , manipulating him by pretence , we now see Lady Macbeth putting herself in the dominant position , planning to manipulate her husband : Macbeth is now transparent to her , and she to us . |
| 26 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |