Example sentences of "[vb base] herself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 2 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 3 | He stayed beside the car as she crossed the narrow pavement , but the shadowed gaze followed her as she shakily climbed the steps to the door of the house , slid her key into the lock with a trembling hand and let herself into the hallway . |
| 4 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 5 | Some geldings will ‘ tease ’ mares , and so can be a danger if on the other side of a wire fence , as a mare may strike out or kick at the gelding and injure herself in the fence . |
| 6 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 7 | And then he would remember how it was , there on the island in the lantern light ; how he had watched her lose herself in the tune she had been playing ; how her voice had seemed the voice of his spirit singing , freed like a bird into the darkness of the night . |
| 8 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 9 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 10 | Paige ground her teeth , very nearly tempted to behave in an unladylike way and fling herself across the table and scratch his eyes out — anything to stop their icy mockery . |
| 11 | They could all go hang ; she 'd switch them off and go and submerge herself in the bath for half an hour . |
| 12 | I spoke to her , telling her to do as we had earlier discussed and detach herself from the scene so that she could see it and tell me about it but could not feel any distress , whether mental , physical or emotional . |
| 13 | All the actresses think that it is vital that France should , as they say , engage herself with the past . |
| 14 | I did as she suggested , keeping my dressing-gown on , and watched her settle herself in the arm-chair and get her knitting out . |
| 15 | Charlotte was glad of the excuse to leave him and busy herself in the kitchen . |
| 16 | A day later , Corbett sat on the edge of his own bed in Leighton Manor watching Maeve busy herself round the room . |