Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] herself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Alexandra surveyed herself in the long glass on the wall . |
| 3 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 4 | Léonie thrust herself into the musty blackness behind the barrel , found an arm , two arms , pulled . |
| 5 | Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette . |
| 6 | Joe returned the warm plates of food to the table , and Dolly helped herself to the mint sauce . |
| 7 | Wycliffe lazed in his chair , while Helen lost herself in the zany twilight world of Iris Murdoch . |
| 8 | Tabitha flung herself at the hard bunk with an angry sigh . |
| 9 | When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair . |
| 10 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 11 | When we arrived , Mary let herself in the front door and we entered the dining room . |
| 12 | Alina perched herself on the far end of the three-seater . |
| 13 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 14 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 15 | Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks . |
| 16 | Charlotte lowered herself into the nearest chair and watched Ursula lean slowly back against the window-sill , one hand grasping the edge tightly while the other held her cigarette . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | During this interlude , Charlotte reminded herself of the different bluffs and deceptions each was practising . |
| 19 | Leonora restricted herself to the main tableland of the island , knowing perfectly well that Penry had her safety in mind in his veto of exploration on her own . |