Example sentences of "[vb past] herself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone in the dining room , having eaten the half-grapefruit set in her place by Curtis , she helped herself from the sideboard to fish pie cooked by Mrs Files . |
| 2 | Pink riding hats , turquoise waistcoats , stetsons ( Jane just stopped herself from asking where the corks were ) and they wore all these glories even when they were mucking out . |
| 3 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 4 | Just in time she stopped herself from confiding that she 'd almost forgotten how to dance . |
| 5 | Carolyn just stopped herself from saying why . |
| 6 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 7 | There the lucky ones among us were allowed half-way up the steps before being halted and held in position for twenty minutes while , I assume , the stewardess disentangled herself from more pressing engagements and tidied herself in readiness . |
| 8 | Dear Donna said virtuously that she had to write her report , and disentangled herself from the conversation before she was asked to babysit . |
| 9 | Yeah erm again you need n't worry too much about the er erm about the ramifications of this Kenning died in twenty seven and Britain to some extent disentangled herself from the Greek revolt but the upshot was that in eighteen thirty Greece became an independent state . |
| 10 | A tide of crimson flowed into Isabel 's face when she hurriedly disentangled herself from fitzAlan and saw that Ralf had been joined by Sybil and Master Thomas , who had come to the inn door to wave them off . |
| 11 | Rachaela lifted herself from the chair . |
| 12 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 13 | Tabitha separated herself from Marco with a convulsive heave that spreadeagled him against the porthole . |
| 14 | She separated herself from their intimacy by putting the forks precisely away in a drawer , where other forks were . |
| 15 | She noticed the card , noticed me with widening eyes , and in a short while detached herself from the owners and stood and waited . |
| 16 | Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder . |
| 17 | Stephanie detached herself from his arm , her beautiful features frozen in hostility . |
| 18 | Gina gave an awkward laugh as she detached herself from his hold . |
| 19 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 20 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 21 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 22 | Mrs Browning raised herself from her pillows and unable to speak , her hand at her throat , waited . |
| 23 | And when he had undone her gown , and had difficulty in lifting it over her head , she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off . |
| 24 | Adele Duncan raised herself from the pillows . |
| 25 | Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks . |
| 26 | The dictates of self-preservation often ensured that the respectable young working woman dissociated herself from the known prostitute , since association with prostitutes rendered a woman 's character suspect to the police and could lead to her name being placed on the registration list . |
| 27 | Jane restrained herself from inquiring what she had done with it , for she sensed a field telegraph situation , so forced herself to be polite . |
| 28 | She restrained herself from reacting , except with a smile , which he returned . |
| 29 | She restrained herself from pinching another soldier . |
| 30 | Whereupon , declaring that no less precious food should thereafter pass her lips , the lady had , variously , starved herself to death or flung herself from the window , in which case her blood had forever coloured the ruddy rocks of Roussillon . |