Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 2 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 3 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 4 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 5 | Biting her lips , she turned away , pretending to busy herself with one of the other costumes . |
| 6 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 7 | True , she was going to leave herself with one very big headache with regard to her mortgage , but even that was not unsurmountable . |
| 8 | ‘ Who are we expecting , then ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who , like all good servants , was beginning to identify herself with her employers , and was one reason for her surprising success as a maid of all work . |
| 9 | Dana loved luxury and she seemed to manage to surround herself with things Claudia could n't even dream of buying . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She decided to extricate herself with dignity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His client 's optimism and appetites , with equal suddenness , burned clear in opposition , and Charlotte had a vision of two principles in headlong collision , and chose to ally herself with her own kinsman , by intuition and once for all . |
| 14 | The Cockney porter who had smuggled in a bottle of booze for him said that one of them liked to satisfy herself with the aid of bottle necks . |
| 15 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 16 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 17 | She had to satisfy herself with biting her lip and plotting revenge on that red-headed menace who was always disrupting somebody 's life . |
| 18 | She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh . |
| 19 | But she bore the pain stoically , trying to comfort herself with the thought that Luke was unaccustomed to failure with women . |