Example sentences of "[verb] herself [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the man withdrew as silently as he had arrived , Joan was surprised to find herself alone with the young king . |
| 2 | Devoy would surely count her match against Jackman as one of the most demanding she has experienced during her long reign as the world 's leading player , while Jackman , who was unlucky not to win the second game , pronounced herself happy with her performance . |
| 3 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 4 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 5 | But when she got to Auckland , when she found herself alone with Damian for three days and three nights … what would she think of then ? |
| 6 | She felt them go round her , strong and decided against her dress , beneath her coat , and then he put his mouth on hers and began to kiss her , and for a moment she felt that she was flying , and the next minute she was clawing herself free with the superhuman strength of panic and stumbling for the door . |
| 7 | Robyn hugged herself dry with a warm towel . |
| 8 | A bitter old biddy , eating herself alive with bile , pretending to be crippled to tie her son to the old place , sucking all the life out of him . |
| 9 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 10 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 11 | She went on weeping , making herself ill with it , until she heard Paul at the door . |
| 12 | Andrea Wallace did herself proud with the bronze medal and a personal best of 2–31–32 in the women 's race , only her second attempt after winning at Carpi . |
| 13 | The abrupt challenge was distracted because she was struggling to contend with an unexpectedly physical reaction to finding herself alone with him in such a confined space . |