Example sentences of "and [verb] herself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta followed her into a spacious drawing-room , and seated herself in a chair to one side of the tiled fireplace , while Veronica took the chair opposite . |
| 2 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 3 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 4 | … and found herself in a part of the house she had never seen before . |
| 5 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 6 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 7 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 8 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 9 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 10 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 11 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |
| 12 | Here she went to the dressing table where she sat down and regarded herself in the mirror . |
| 13 | Maura pushed her way through the adults and stationed herself in the front room next to the table piled high with food . |
| 14 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 15 | Alone once more , she walked and walked , and when she became too hot to carry on , she swam again and dried herself in the sun . |
| 16 | Kathleen turned and studied herself in the mirror . |
| 17 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 20 | Loretta led the way into the drawing-room and settled herself in an armchair . |
| 21 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 22 | To open a white painted door , its handle and finger plate of white porcelain rimmed in gold and painted with fat roses , and find herself in a low warm room where every surface was cushioned and padded , designed for comfort , was a revelation indeed . |
| 23 | She started to feel much more comfortable about how she looked , and unconsciously began to relax and to hold herself in the quietly poised way she did when dressed in a nurse 's uniform or casual clothes . |
| 24 | They could all go hang ; she 'd switch them off and go and submerge herself in the bath for half an hour . |
| 25 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 26 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |
| 27 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 28 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 29 | It showed a girl by a sunlit window with her back turned , apparently drying her loins and watching herself in the mirror at the same time . |
| 30 | Flamboyant Susan Allen , 25 , withdrew a pistol from the Maze Prison armoury on Monday night and shot herself in the head hours later at her Banbridge home . |