Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found that she was able to think of Johnny dispassionately , and she acknowledged to herself with honesty , and a new clarity of understanding , that she did not love him , nor ever could . |
| 2 | At first she could meet his eyes , but what she saw confused her and she looked at the floor , colour creeping into her cheeks , reacting against the tenderness surprised in herself with a sense of shock that made her brusque and suspicious . |
| 3 | She ate placidly , acknowledging to herself with her customary good sense that at the moment , as at any time since her brother William had died , she and Penelope were getting no pleasure at all from each other 's company . |
| 4 | True , he was no oil painting , but she had long passed the age of needing good looks about her , and anyway , she admitted to herself with disarming frankness , her own beauty had long since gone . |
| 5 | Nothing like making up for lost time , she thought to herself with relish . |
| 6 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 7 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 8 | They were standing against the light , and their profiles overlapped at close quarters , and haloed them ; they made a vivid show of cock-of-the-roost virility , and she chuckled to herself with pleasure . |
| 9 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 11 | I wonder , she said to herself with a sudden lurch of her heart , I wonder if I 'm embarking on something I shall not be able to stop ? |
| 12 | Milan , Caroline said to herself with that sudden , strange insight fate often provides . |
| 13 | Mary-Claude 's pregnancy had been troublesome from the start , even without the stress of a month 's separation and having to cope by herself with the move back from Cyprus , and Coleman was exhausted from a gruelling month of detailed debriefings by a stream of DIA officers and analysts at an assortment of Ramada Inns in the Baltimore/Washington area . |