Example sentences of "[v-ing] herself [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 2 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 3 | Pulling herself out of the dazed state into which the woman 's embittered words had thrown her , she tried for a non-committal tone . |
| 4 | She set up everywhere she went a series of dependency relationships , attaching herself either to the compassionate , the powerful , or the merely expedient , when her lack of judgement often led her to be rejected , robbed or ill-treated , but — again a psychotic trait — she seemed unable to learn by experience . |
| 5 | ‘ I locked that ! ’ thought Marie , hauling herself up into the dim interior . |
| 6 | She stared grimly ahead , carefully shutting herself off from the cold wind that suddenly blew around her heart . |
| 7 | Finding herself back in the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken lost no time in looking down the microscope again . |
| 8 | The windows up here were waist-high , but very deep , and she found that by lifting herself up into the actual narrow embrasure , and leaning precariously forward , she could get a limited view of the clearing below . |
| 9 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |