Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 2 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |
| 5 | The journey had been rough enough — she had lost the tip of one leg — but the effort it had taken to haul herself up the stairs in the cold hall to the bathroom door had left her almost dead with exhaustion . |
| 6 | A previous landlady had tried to help herself to the orange juice to put in her gin . |
| 7 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 8 | She had meant to confine herself to the unwelcome proposal of marriage from Manfro Draper , but somehow she found herself telling her listeners all about her mother and father . |