Example sentences of "[verb] herself with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing . |
| 2 | We might as well both be invisible , she told herself with irritation , conveniently forgetting Luke 's earlier attempts to draw her into the conversation . |
| 3 | Not that it would have mattered if there had been , she told herself with resignation . |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 5 | Doreen turned her broad kindly face away and busied herself with dinner preparations . |
| 6 | She soaked herself with petrol before locking herself inside the back of the van for nearly a day . |
| 7 | She disposed of her errand , and armed herself with cash , and they went to shop , the usual duty shopping for the household , the more esoteric lines which were not stocked and delivered locally ; and a few items for her own pleasure . |
| 8 | She decided to extricate herself with dignity . |
| 9 | So Vaughan contented herself with training as a nurse and avidly reading food books in her spare time . |
| 10 | He suggests that a woman may be allowed to sit at his feet , rather than preoccupy herself with cooking . |
| 11 | Almost certainly before Rachel an ancient goddess shed tears there bewailing her lover and , as Anat did for Ba'al , she ‘ continued sating herself with weeping , To drink tears like wine ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen 'em loading up the Guineamen ready to sail for Africa , ’ she said , thrusting away the indignity of being shackled , cheering herself with talk . |
| 13 | Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer . |
| 14 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 15 | In Dunton v. Dunton ( 1892 ) 18 V.L.R. 114 ( Supreme Court of Victoria ) , the Court ( Higinbotham and Williams JJ. , Hood J. dissenting ) held that an agreement between ex-spouses whereby the former husband undertook to pay the former wife £6 per month , ‘ so long as she … shall conduct herself with sobriety , and in a respectable , orderly , and virtuous manner ’ was a valid contract made for a consideration . |
| 16 | One lesson Athens had learnt , not to overreach herself with warfare in two theatres . |
| 17 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 18 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 19 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you have a good day at the office ? ’ she asked , hearing herself with horror . |
| 21 | Do n't be silly ! she chided herself with impatience . |
| 22 | Deciding it was right , she left it to swing lightly between her breasts as she sprayed herself with Dune , the new Christian Dior fragrance , on her way to answer the doorbell . |
| 23 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 24 | She launched into a long mocking invention about patriotism and monarchists and the Army , inspiring herself with hatred and feeling pleasurably like a pianist going into a cadenza . |
| 25 | When that argument had failed , she had tried taunting herself with infatuation — with having developed a schoolgirl-like crush that would n't outlast separation . |
| 26 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 27 | ‘ She staggered and fell ; nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead ; but raising herself with difficulty … breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker . |
| 28 | what is she covering herself with money . |
| 29 | This was the very thought in her head as she turned the corner of the corridor and back into the waiting room and saw the weeping figure of a woman hunched over and hugging herself with grief . |
| 30 | She eyed herself with gloom . |