Example sentences of "and [verb] herself in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stepped through the doors , and found herself in total darkness . |
| 2 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 3 | All at once , Melanie was back home and swathing herself in diaphanous veiling before a mirror . |
| 4 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 5 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 6 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 7 | A few yards before the winning post she found yet more courage and stamina and forced herself in front to win by a length . |
| 8 | Alice cooked herself eggs , drank tea , and washed herself in cold water , standing in the bath . |