Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she responded , he increased the pressure of his lips on hers until she realised what he was trying to do , and slowly allowed herself to be pushed back into a lying position . |
| 2 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 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 | Elizabeth Woodville sat up and gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son . |
| 5 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 6 | She moved the top part of her body forward and deliberately pushed herself against Johnny 's chest . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she whispered , and immediately cursed herself for apologising . |
| 8 | A whisky glass , she noticed , and immediately chided herself for being unkind . |
| 9 | She rolled over on her side , and immediately immersed herself in the book , ignoring all the disgruntled settling-in noises Sandra was making . |
| 10 | She went upstairs to change after luncheon and then took herself to the chair by her bedroom hearth , and said she should want nothing further , all afternoon . |
| 11 | ‘ But it 's how I feel about these plans , now , after … ’ she faltered a second and then forced herself on ‘ … after everything . |
| 12 | One was a 70-year-old Watcher who threatened to do us grievous bodily harm and then hand herself in thus doubling at a stroke the NW clear up rate . |
| 13 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 14 | She cast a suspicious glance over the lockers and then shook herself for her wild imaginings . |
| 15 | That evening , she waited until Charlie was in his office and then presented herself in the doorway . |
| 16 | In early January 1982 , her first New Year within the royal family , the pregnant Diana threatened to take her own life and then hurled herself down the stairs at Sandringham . |
| 17 | After she 'd completed her delivery round of the dressing rooms , Lucy came back into the department , took off her coat and threw it in the corner , and then threw herself onto one of the available chairs with an equal lack of ceremony . |
| 18 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
| 19 | Her significance as Prime Minister is that she has set an example ; by pushing to the outer limits of her authority , making decisions with small groups of ministers and advisers , and closely involving herself in Whitehall promotions and the policies of departments , ‘ the repertoire of Prime Ministerial tasks has been extended ’ . |
| 20 | Possible strategies include the domestic strategy where the female recognizes domestic qualities in males in advance and therefore benefits herself by choosing a male with qualities . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
| 23 | She said drily : ‘ I imagine that a man 's idea of the ideal secretary is a woman who manages to imply that she would like to go to bed with her boss but nobly restrains herself in the interests of office efficiency . |