Example sentences of "[verb] herself with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 2 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 3 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 4 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 5 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 6 | No doubt she will also enjoy herself with the best of our manhood . ’ |
| 7 | Sorrel excelled herself with the meal , although her father never mentioned it . |
| 8 | She remembered because she had seen her drive off and it was unusual for ‘ a señora of her quality ’ to be driving herself with no companion . |
| 9 | About to batter the floor with her heel , Lissa stopped herself with a superhuman effort and held herself rigid . |
| 10 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 11 | Sisterlike or not , Frau Nordern 's word was enough and Erika found herself with a glass of light Hungarian wine and enjoying it , too . |
| 12 | She was tied up until lunch with yet another department meeting but , after a sandwich in the refectory , found herself with a clear afternoon . |
| 13 | Shelley found herself with a woman whose slashed arm required urgent suturing . |
| 14 | I myself saw a girl hang herself with a vine . ’ |
| 15 | Well , if she ever met Billy Sullivan on the street again she would feel less inhibited about talking with him , as long as he remained proper , she told herself with a smile . |
| 16 | Jessamy told herself with a dark frown . |
| 17 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 18 | Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean . |
| 19 | If there were to be nightmares , she could not control that ; but she would not waste her waking time frightening herself with a terror which was past . |
| 20 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 21 | With a brave shudder Nelly poured the water on the tea leaves , comforting herself with the thought that boiling water killed germs of all sorts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now she identified herself with the future , as freedom was breaking out everywhere , and Labour with the failed past . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 26 | Ianthe flushed and busied herself with the coffee tray . |
| 27 | She busied herself with the scissors , studying his hair intently . |
| 28 | Embarrassed , Izzie busied herself with the bedmaking , putting up her hand repeatedly to keep in place the headscarf over her shaved head . |
| 29 | She consoled herself with the thought that Pet would have been dead before it happened . |
| 30 | She consoled herself with the fact that her daughter understood . |