Example sentences of "[vb past] herself [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 2 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 3 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 4 | Nutty flung herself blindly at the opposition . |
| 5 | Beatie crossed herself quickly at the mention of the dead , the young Irish woman was sometimes ashamed of her husband 's bluntness . |
| 6 | Ana excused herself quickly at the sound of his tight voice and as she left the room Felipe fixed Mitch with a sceptical eye . |
| 7 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |