Example sentences of "[verb] herself with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russia , to whom the Near East was almost if not quite as important as to the Habsburgs , also made considerable though less systematic efforts to provide herself with men competent in Turkish . |
| 2 | Carol busied herself with dishes and paper bags . |
| 3 | Dana loved luxury and she seemed to manage to surround herself with things Claudia could n't even dream of buying . |
| 4 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 5 | She concerned herself with standards of education , participating in this Association 's examining activities . |
| 6 | She surrounds herself with priests . |
| 7 | Why was she upsetting herself with thoughts of Vass ? |
| 8 | France , for example , which also equipped herself with consuls in India and Malaya ( Singapore , 1839 ; Calcutta , 1846 ; Bombay , 1866 ) established one in Canton , after some earlier unsuccessful attempts , in 1843 and others in Hongkong , Hankow and Tientsin from 1862 . |
| 9 | ‘ Uh-huh , ’ she said , busying herself with miners ' lamps , old spectacle cases and various china oddments which had ‘ A souvenir of Cromer ’ stamped on the bottom . |
| 10 | It was ajar and he could see the young woman busying herself with chores before reopening the shop for the afternoon trade . |
| 11 | She whimpered and covered herself with injuries , saying she could eat shit if that would please the sorceress , eat the sorceress 's own shit , and drink her piss too , if it pleased her . |
| 12 | She bound her arms from the shoulder to the elbow with thick cords … she rubbed herself with nettles … [ in her full length hair shirt ] she appeared more glorious in the eyes of God from her having armed it underneath with a great quantity of points of needles to increase her suffering by this ingenious cruelty … |
| 13 | It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders . |
| 14 | It 's a busy , demanding life — a far cry from the days when Odette would sit at home , too tired to do anything except console herself with chocolates . |
| 15 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 16 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 17 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 18 | But — quite apart from the issue of whether a woman like myself can in any meaningful way identify herself with women in the remote past — one must ask how could this be useful theologically ? |
| 19 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 20 | And , as they worked , Lucy 's imagination carried her away to the bush , causing her to torture herself with thoughts of Doreen 's fingers sliding down Silas 's arm to clasp his hand . |