Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 2 | She took the report , went out into the department and threw herself into her work with tight-lipped determination . |
| 3 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 4 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
| 5 | She had time only to park her car and let herself into her flat before he arrived . |
| 6 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 7 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 8 | Perhaps a little fantasy was just what she needed , she decided , mentally preparing to suspend disbelief and abandon herself to whatever awaited her . |
| 9 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 10 | The severity of her discipline — she lived three years on bread and water , sometimes went barefoot to church in winter and prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church during weather so cold that the wine froze in the chalice during Mass — is typical of these women . |
| 11 | A few yards before the winning post she found yet more courage and stamina and forced herself in front to win by a length . |
| 12 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 13 | She had a head of flowing auburn hair and carried herself in a self-possessed manner touching on the arrogant . |
| 14 | She went and took a grey pleated skirt from her case and zipped herself into it . |
| 15 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 16 | She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink . |
| 17 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 18 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 19 | An oriental girl dressed as a matador wrenched off her domino and threw herself at me . |
| 20 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 21 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's the tie I like , ’ she said , opening one of their two copies of the Washington Post and burying herself behind it . |
| 23 | Martha , the nurse on duty , proved to be a real dog-lover and insisted that Zephyr could go of her lead and make herself at home . |
| 24 | She went into the empty staff-room and helping herself to a cup of coffee , she sank wearily into a chair . |
| 25 | She took up the already damp towel and swathed herself in it . |
| 26 | Loretta led the way into the drawing-room and settled herself in an armchair . |
| 27 | Victoria came up the room and seated herself on the couch , and without either greeting or preamble , she said , ‘ I 've had indigestion ever since Christmas Day . |
| 28 | She went into another room and threw herself on a bed . |
| 29 | She charged into the room and threw herself at him , punching him hard with her small , clenched fists . |
| 30 | When she accepted , Loretta moved across the room and helped herself to two glasses . |