Example sentences of "herself with [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once the business had been established and the initial problems of setting it up had been dealt with , she had found herself with a certain amount of time at her disposal , time to relax , time to remember . |
| 2 | Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw . |
| 3 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Emma will be able to tell you all about that herself with a little help from her owner if you ring her on . |
| 6 | Silvia perched herself with a broad smile on the edge of the bed . |
| 7 | Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean . |
| 8 | This left Lady Arran free to fortify herself with a large tot of rum . |
| 9 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 10 | Phoebe lying on her bed in her mother 's house in north London , asked herself with a sudden rush of nostalgia . |
| 11 | I wonder , she said to herself with a sudden lurch of her heart , I wonder if I 'm embarking on something I shall not be able to stop ? |
| 12 | This time she was able to trap the playful retort before it made it from her mind to her mouth , managing to content herself with an indifferent lift of the shoulders . |
| 13 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 14 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 15 | Another time she cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer ; on yet another occasion , during a heated argument with Prince Charles , she picked up a penknife lying on his dressing table and cut her chest and her thighs . |