Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has also sketched herself slumped on the floor , with her mother brandishing a syringe and a key . |
| 2 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 3 | She is never entirely comfortable until she has surveyed those before her , put them mentally in their places and seen herself rise to the top in doing so . |
| 4 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 5 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 6 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 7 | Emily smiled , her aunt could be a holy terror but tonight she would be on her best behaviour because the élite of the Swansea gentry would be at the Race Ball and Aunt Sophie had not found herself invited into the social circles lately , not since Craig 's arrest . |
| 8 | She was really feeling tired now , half wishing she had n't indulged herself taking in the sights . |