Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 2 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 3 | With one hand clamped between her legs to avoid dropping her load , she stepped astride the wooden animal , and gingerly lowered herself to the saddle . |
| 4 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 5 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 6 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 7 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 8 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 9 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 10 | She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments . |
| 11 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 12 | She insisted she would only address herself to the managers . |
| 13 | She did n't exactly throw herself against the door , but she began to beat on it with her fists . |
| 14 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 15 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 16 | She scarcely recognised herself in the woman who confronted her . |
| 17 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 18 | Julie rolled over , finally propping herself against the back door , touching the bolts there to reassure herself that it was locked . |
| 19 | She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household . |
| 20 | She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors . |
| 21 | Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her . |
| 22 | This weekend she had finally braced herself to the course of obtruding the existence of Len into the house . |
| 23 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 24 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 25 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 26 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 27 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 28 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 29 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 30 | She practically flung herself into the driver 's seat , moaning loudly with pain as she eased herself into position and started the engine . |