Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] herself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 2 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 3 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 4 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
| 5 | 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 . |