Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took up the already damp towel and swathed herself in it . |
| 2 | She went into another room and threw herself on a bed . |
| 3 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 4 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 5 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 6 | She had a head of flowing auburn hair and carried herself in a self-possessed manner touching on the arrogant . |
| 7 | Charlotte Ladram was more obviously nervous than he had known her to be on any previous occasion and professed herself reluctant to remain indoors , let alone cook a meal . |
| 8 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |
| 9 | She chose left , descended a further long flight and found herself facing a closed door marked ‘ Fire Exit ’ . |
| 10 | Robyn took a deep breath and forced herself to speak reasonably , calmly . |
| 11 | She took a deep breath and made herself speak slowly . |
| 12 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 13 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 14 | Topaz gave a deep curtsey and found herself raised up by a royal hand . |
| 15 | The late Jimmy Irvine , one of the drivers , said , ‘ Och , ye 've seen that lassie that threw herself under a train at Pinmore in 1939 . ’ |
| 16 | Now though she stifled that feeling and gave herself up to the joy of being in his arms and hearing how long and how deeply he had loved her . |
| 17 | Joan blushed at the unexpected compliment and told herself that , despite first impressions , Richard of York had changed . |
| 18 | She made an angry movement but controlled herself . |
| 19 | Shelley took the medical bag and swung herself into the jeep . |
| 20 | She wondered now , in cold blood , just how she had found the courage to undertake the terrifying trip along that narrow ledge and told herself that nothing would ever induce her to go near it again . |
| 21 | ‘ Which ones ? ’ she asked demurely as she ignored the proffered chair and placed herself between Gioella and Ludovico . |
| 22 | Marianne crossed the room with her usual catlike grace and threw herself casually down on the bed . |
| 23 | The back door of the Old Rectory , giving access to the scullery , was normally left open during daylight hours and an inner door to the house locked , but Alice Mair had knocked at the front door and made herself known . |
| 24 | She swung her bottom south-south-west and steered herself off up the path . |
| 25 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 26 | As she took her own cup and settled herself again in her chair , Mrs McDougall looked at me over her spectacles and said comfortably : ‘ The girls will have told you about Ewen Mackay . ’ |
| 27 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 28 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 29 | It really is very difficult to convey , sir , the immense difficulties this woman was up against , trying to give her daughter the benefits of a modern education but bound herself by a family subscribing to a quite different system of ‘ mores ’ . |
| 30 | About to batter the floor with her heel , Lissa stopped herself with a superhuman effort and held herself rigid . |