Example sentences of "and [verb] herself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria came up the room and seated herself on the couch , and without either greeting or preamble , she said , ‘ I 've had indigestion ever since Christmas Day . |
| 2 | She ran past him , and flung herself on the door , fumbling with the catch . |
| 3 | For a craven moment she was tempted to go back and throw herself on the mercy of the landlady . |
| 4 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 5 | She went over and perched herself on the ottoman at his feet . |
| 6 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 7 | She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink . |
| 8 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 9 | Rapidly clearing away some bric-à-brac — a fan , a mandolin , a rusty bird cage — from a velvet throne , she invited Ruth to sit down , and settled herself on the edge of a dress-basket . |
| 10 | She blindfolded him with her sopping knickers , and balanced herself on the edge of the table . |
| 11 | The severity of her discipline — she lived three years on bread and water , sometimes went barefoot to church in winter and prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church during weather so cold that the wine froze in the chalice during Mass — is typical of these women . |
| 12 | She guided him to an armchair and sat herself on the edge of a Victorian sofa . |