Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pn reflx] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung herself into his arms and looked up imploringly . |
| 2 | She flung herself into her room and began to pack frantically , wanting to cry with rage and shame . |
| 3 | She flung herself into Matthew 's arms . |
| 4 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
| 5 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 6 | With an immense effort of will she goaded herself into activity , striking life into her numbed brain , forcing limbs as heavy as wet sand , to respond . |
| 7 | She cast herself into heated ovens or boiling cauldrons , was immersed in the freezing waters of a mill-race in winter and hunted by a pack of dogs through thorny thickets . |
| 8 | With this foot and all the solidity and strength of her right leg she levered herself into a standing position . |
| 9 | She let herself into the kitchen , where young Joe Burns had asked about her . |
| 10 | When she let herself into the flat , Ralph was waiting in the hall . |
| 11 | She let herself into the kitchen and sank into a chair before the fire that urgently needed mending . |
| 12 | She let herself into her house . |
| 13 | The girl was carrying a latchkey ; she let herself into the cabin . |
| 14 | She let herself into the house , and made herself a cup of tea . |
| 15 | The day had seemed longer than usual , Claudia thought as she let herself into her flat with a sigh of relief . |
| 16 | Sally-Anne , feeling that with Rose 's offer of friendship she was entering more and more into her new life , was humming ‘ Marching through Georgia ’ , and had just reached Atlanta , when she let herself into Dr Neil 's . |
| 17 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 18 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 19 | She was smiling to herself as she let herself into her kitchen by the back door . |
| 20 | There was no one about when she let herself into the house , and thankfully she went quietly up to her room . |
| 21 | Yeats watched , with an appalled fascination , as she threw herself into ‘ a joyous and self-forgetting condition of political hate ’ . |
| 22 | She threw herself into his arms , sighing deeply when he half-heartedly returned her embrace . |
| 23 | In the shop , in the dimness , she threw herself into Nick 's arms and kissed him . |
| 24 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |
| 25 | She threw herself into his arms at every opportunity , and like a gentleman he kissed her back . |
| 26 | Needing no further urging , she threw herself into his arms and he carried her upstairs . |
| 27 | With a sigh , rather than a cry , she threw herself into the water and felt peace . |
| 28 | She threw herself into her work harder than ever , doing anything that was asked of her , from pinning hems to sweeping the design-room floor to helping the showroom models with their make-up , and all the while she counted the days until she could leave this city and go back to New York , where she belonged . |
| 29 | She poured herself into self-sacrifice now for another cause — the people . |
| 30 | It drove him mad when she turned herself into a sphinx as a ruse to avoid facing the truth . |