Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] [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 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 9 | She was like an experienced woman , the way she moved her body and opened herself up to him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Susan got a wall behind her back and braced herself against it , edging upwards , feet pushing against the cobbles . |
| 12 | Fei Yen took her drink and seated herself beside her husband , facing the other men . |
| 13 | She took a mouthful of her drink and pulled herself together . |
| 14 | Mona , who has also produced plays and musicals for the West End stage , said she was proud of her ancestry but saw herself as English because she was raised here . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cora-Beth jumped up from her chair and flung herself into her father 's arms . |
| 17 | Xanthe moved herself and her Coke and unburdened herself of her immediate thought . |
| 18 | She had n't adjusted her stance or braced herself or anything . |
| 19 | She stopped the fantasy in its flow and chastised herself . |
| 20 | Delia Sutherland put down her suitcase and closed herself in there . |
| 21 | She could hear what sounded like Ace talking to someone on the phone as she picked up her coat and shrugged herself into it . |
| 22 | Mrs Stych swivelled round on her stool and forced herself to attend to her son . |
| 23 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |
| 24 | She 's called up her magic and made herself invisible ! |
| 25 | Caroline slammed her hands against his chest and thrust herself free of his embrace . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 28 | Robyn met his gaze and forced herself to stay inert . |
| 29 | Ronni followed his gaze and felt herself turn crimson . |
| 30 | She caught his eye and found herself smiling up at him . |