Example sentences of "[verb] herself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 2 | Enticed by the exotic smells issuing from a nearby many-storeyed building , she crossed the threshold to find herself on the ground floor of a gourmet 's paradise . |
| 3 | He kissed her on the mouth and she tasted herself on his lips . |
| 4 | When Maggie had perched herself on one she said , Does this mean I 'm being interviewed ? ’ |
| 5 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 6 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 7 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 8 | She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then . |
| 9 | Ruth found herself on her knees , sand rasping between her fingers . |
| 10 | Jacqui found herself on her knees with Kattina behind her . |
| 11 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |
| 12 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 13 | Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance . |
| 14 | Before Isabel had taken another breath she found herself on her back , gazing up at him bemusedly . |
| 15 | Like Michael Jackson , Madonna and George Michael before her , Kylie chose the world 's second most important pop market to launch herself on a planet desperate to see her perform . |
| 16 | I understand he 's ill. , Seating herself on one of the wooden chairs , she drew off her fine kid gloves and placed them on the table . |
| 17 | ‘ Joan , it will all turn out for the best — I know it will , ’ Anne assured her , seating herself on the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | Seating herself on the edge of the bed , Theda took it into hers and her fingers closed strongly about the bony ones she held . |
| 19 | But Pa is operating the machine himself today , it being Sunday and Ma having excused herself on account of the washing . |
| 20 | But her wounds had begun to heal and yesterday she had felt herself on the verge of a promising beginning — an uphill struggle , perhaps , but a definite move towards new happiness . |
| 21 | Connie parked herself on a white divan and poured out some black steaming liquid . |
| 22 | " Jenny likes expressing herself on paper but she has n't so far , mentioned the date of her return . " |
| 23 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 24 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 25 | Before it grew too chilly she climbed out and dried herself on her dirty shirt before dressing . |
| 26 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
| 27 | She lifted herself on one elbow to peer at the clock behind him . |
| 28 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |
| 29 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 30 | Leila threw herself on Quincx , gabbling about what happened . |