Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 2 | She concerned herself with standards of education , participating in this Association 's examining activities . |
| 3 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |
| 4 | She allies herself with Sarah , and rejects the men , who instantly close ranks against her . |
| 5 | Michel de Montaigne , a French writer of the same era , managed to avoid this hypocrisy , stating honestly that , ‘ When I play with my cat who knows whether she diverts herself with me , or I with her . |
| 6 | And she involves herself with equal energy in various local charities . |
| 7 | And if he decided that he did n't want a divorce ? she asked herself with a small shiver . |
| 8 | Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ? |
| 9 | I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing . |
| 10 | Breeze , of course , already had her afternoon job at the Vicarage , and , as the nurse left soon afterwards , she found herself with her salary increased to fifteen shillings a week and little Nancy to look after , as well as the two boys , and Korah , Dathan and Abiram . |
| 11 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 12 | She consoled herself with the thought that Pet would have been dead before it happened . |
| 13 | She consoled herself with the fact that her daughter understood . |
| 14 | But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing . |
| 15 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 16 | As she acknowledged the formal expression of thanks for the information she had given , she consoled herself with the near-certainty that they knew most of it already . |
| 17 | She contents herself with short , heartfelt abuse of the dickhead kind . |
| 18 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 19 | She busied herself with putting on her glasses . |
| 20 | She busied herself with her hair , restoring it . |
| 21 | She busied herself with the scissors , studying his hair intently . |
| 22 | She busied herself with retrieving the carrier of wet clothes from the seat behind , desperate to end this short-lived but uniquely humiliating experience and yet finding that to end it here , like this , would be the final humiliation of all . |
| 23 | Now she identified herself with the future , as freedom was breaking out everywhere , and Labour with the failed past . |
| 24 | ‘ And remember , ’ she told herself with growing horror , ‘ what Mr Bishop 's brother said ! |
| 25 | Well , if she ever met Billy Sullivan on the street again she would feel less inhibited about talking with him , as long as he remained proper , she told herself with a smile . |
| 26 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 27 | Not that it would have mattered if there had been , she told herself with resignation . |
| 28 | We might as well both be invisible , she told herself with irritation , conveniently forgetting Luke 's earlier attempts to draw her into the conversation . |
| 29 | Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean . |
| 30 | Out there in the cold snow Dane Jacobsen had stripped away some of the barriers she protected herself with . |