Example sentences of "[verb] herself with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Keighley mill warper 's wife found herself with four to care for ; and even one could stir up great resentment . |
| 2 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 3 | ‘ And remember , ’ she told herself with growing horror , ‘ what Mr Bishop 's brother said ! |
| 4 | But Fatima was laughing and loving herself with crossed arms . |
| 5 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 6 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 7 | The officer had quickly positioned herself with one foot on either side of Madeleine 's head , and was crouched down over her face . |
| 8 | She contents herself with short , heartfelt abuse of the dickhead kind . |
| 9 | It seems a good thing that she should occupy herself with these children next door . |
| 10 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 11 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 12 | They all knew that Freddie had , as usual , ended yet another affair , but they reckoned that Liza could have consoled herself with any number of more suitable admirers . |
| 13 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 14 | She 's always been one to surround herself with young bucks . |
| 15 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 16 | This clearly symbolised Russia 's new strength and the international position to which she had now raised herself with spectacular speed . |
| 17 | Biting her lips , she turned away , pretending to busy herself with one of the other costumes . |
| 18 | Bridget made a sympathetic comment and then went off to busy herself with another chore . |
| 19 | True , she was going to leave herself with one very big headache with regard to her mortgage , but even that was not unsurmountable . |
| 20 | Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy . |
| 21 | Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ? |
| 22 | Having accepted that she must wear it , Alexandra then set herself to dress for the pleasure of the Rectory children , throwing good taste to the winds and insisting upon hanging herself with all that glittered from the jewel box Aunt Emily had left her , its rose suede depths heaped with treasures from Richard Talbot . |
| 23 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 24 | And she involves herself with equal energy in various local charities . |
| 25 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 26 | ‘ It does her ego good to flirt with me ; it 's the star of the show 's privilege to indulge herself with up-and-coming actors like myself — I 'm not kidding you , ’ he had told them , ‘ she 's all over me when we film ! ’ |
| 27 | She equipped herself with secretarial skills when her family was growing up , and has worked for many interesting people and for the Diocese of Bath and Wells with Bishop John Bickersteth . |
| 28 | But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever . |
| 29 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 30 | Begin again , distant and spare , a clinical account of how a man — an economist — encountered a beautiful brown woman , the one hundred and fifty-sixth prostitute to spread herself with simulated murmurs and greedy eyes beneath his unslaked loins . |