Example sentences of "[vb base] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 2 | But before she could finish his mouth had covered hers and she had no time to analyse the consequences or curse herself for being so weak . |
| 3 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
| 4 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 5 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 6 | He stayed beside the car as she crossed the narrow pavement , but the shadowed gaze followed her as she shakily climbed the steps to the door of the house , slid her key into the lock with a trembling hand and let herself into the hallway . |
| 7 | Perhaps Lexy had pretended illness to avoid meeting her ; then let herself into Luke 's room uninvited . |
| 8 | In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name . |
| 9 | She had time only to park her car and let herself into her flat before he arrived . |
| 10 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 11 | Charlotte climbed the stairs to her own room , and let herself in silently , with considerable doubts about her own situation . |
| 12 | Thank goodness for Iris , thought Melissa as she plodded wearily up to bed , for insisting that she cover herself by reporting Lou 's visit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bury herself in her work . |
| 15 | She describes the circumstances in which she chose to focus on these tales : ‘ hearing a black woman describe herself as a daughter of Hagar outside the covenant ; … reading news reports of the dismembered body of a woman found in a trash can ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new . |
| 18 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 19 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 20 | Maybe not clothe her kids , but clothe herself from one . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw the woman I love wrap herself round my older , smarter and wittier brother like clingfilm round a sandwich , and it looks like they 're enjoying each other the way … |
| 22 | We keep an extra cover at the end of the bed , and she would pull that off and wrap herself in it . |
| 23 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 24 | Work him up and down while she licked the rest of his body , work her way up , lift herself over him , her fingers now slipping inside herself . |
| 25 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 26 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 27 | She could turn around and go back inside , smile , lose herself amongst strangers again . |
| 28 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 29 | And then he would remember how it was , there on the island in the lantern light ; how he had watched her lose herself in the tune she had been playing ; how her voice had seemed the voice of his spirit singing , freed like a bird into the darkness of the night . |
| 30 | If only she could turn her back on the golden Dane whose gaze still ensnared her , lose herself in the masses and find her own way back to the hotel , but she was held where she stood by invisible chains . |