Example sentences of "[vb past] herself at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
2 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
3 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
4 | Juliet even surprised herself at the bitter words spilling over . |
5 | Tabitha flung herself at the hard bunk with an angry sigh . |
6 | Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette . |
7 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |