Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] and [vb past] herself " in BNC.

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1 She followed into my office and arranged herself neatly in a straight-backed chair , notebook open and sharp pencil ready poised for an attack on the clean white pages .
2 An oriental girl dressed as a matador wrenched off her domino and threw herself at me .
3 She went and took a grey pleated skirt from her case and zipped herself into it .
4 She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink .
5 She could feel the almost-accidental brush of his hand against her hair and felt herself flood with a warmth deeper and more insistent than the scalding heat of the water in which they were immersed .
6 With a muffled groan she rolled on to her side and screwed herself up into a tight ball , alternately hot and shivery with emotion .
7 She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in .
8 She was like an experienced woman , the way she moved her body and opened herself up to him .
9 His wife , who was never speechless in those days , entertained the painters , art critics and sculptors more successfully than her husband and found herself slipping into various love affairs which her Arnold , smiling quietly and getting on with his business and his collection , seemed to expect .
10 Susan got a wall behind her back and braced herself against it , edging upwards , feet pushing against the cobbles .
11 Fei Yen took her drink and seated herself beside her husband , facing the other men .
12 She took a mouthful of her drink and pulled herself together .
13 Several weeks later , on the twenty-first anniversary of the baby 's death , we held a tearful and moving ceremony with candles and poetry , in which Betty said goodbye to her baby and gave herself permission to get on with the rest of her life .
14 Cora-Beth jumped up from her chair and flung herself into her father 's arms .
15 Xanthe moved herself and her Coke and unburdened herself of her immediate thought .
16 She stopped the fantasy in its flow and chastised herself .
17 Delia Sutherland put down her suitcase and closed herself in there .
18 She could hear what sounded like Ace talking to someone on the phone as she picked up her coat and shrugged herself into it .
19 Mrs Stych swivelled round on her stool and forced herself to attend to her son .
20 Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant .
21 She 's called up her magic and made herself invisible !
22 Caroline slammed her hands against his chest and thrust herself free of his embrace .
23 Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss .
24 Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it .
25 Robyn met his gaze and forced herself to stay inert .
26 Ronni followed his gaze and felt herself turn crimson .
27 She caught his eye and found herself smiling up at him .
28 And erm she 's just cooking the meal and she went upstairs went into her son 's bedroom , got his belt and hung herself and her children coming back from school and find that .
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