Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] herself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horrified , she tried to wrench herself from sleep — then the water struck , roaring round her ears . |
| 2 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 3 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 4 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 5 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 6 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 7 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 8 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 9 | Employing only a cool curiosity , she had defended herself from sentimental pretences . |
| 10 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 11 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 12 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 13 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 14 | She had to restrain herself from dashing for it , almost in the fear that it would close again and that this time , it would be forever . |
| 15 | As his palm cupped their heaviness , almost possessively , squeezing , caressing , make her blood leap , Lisa was suddenly overcome by a longing so intense that she had to restrain herself from falling on her knees and begging him to make love to her right there on the beach . |
| 16 | She had to restrain herself from slamming the receiver down with shameful violence . |
| 17 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |