Example sentences of "[prep] herself with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She looked back on the transformation in herself with a kind of helpless resignation . |
| 3 | Always insists on a room to herself with a lock on the door . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account . |
| 6 | Hector whined his impatience , bringing Theda back to herself with a start . |
| 7 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You expect her to crouch and try to put the robe on before she 's fully out of the water , or to turn her back to you , but instead there 's something like a sneer on her face as she stands up facing you and wraps the robe around herself with a kind of disdain . |
| 12 | She had given up concerning herself with the agent of the Scarabae . |