Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 3 | It seems a good thing that she should occupy herself with these children next door . |
| 4 | It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders . |
| 5 | She failed to see , Mrs Stead-Carter finally declared , why it was that Miss Poraway , who had never been a mother , should concern herself with the Mothers ' Union in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Still , she could console herself with the knowledge that Luke , and all his complexities , would n't be impinging upon her life for much longer . |
| 8 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 9 | In Dunton v. Dunton ( 1892 ) 18 V.L.R. 114 ( Supreme Court of Victoria ) , the Court ( Higinbotham and Williams JJ. , Hood J. dissenting ) held that an agreement between ex-spouses whereby the former husband undertook to pay the former wife £6 per month , ‘ so long as she … shall conduct herself with sobriety , and in a respectable , orderly , and virtuous manner ’ was a valid contract made for a consideration . |
| 10 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 11 | In cichlids this seems to pose no particular problem , perhaps because the average female cichlid will content herself with any mate if an appropriate one is not available . |
| 12 | ‘ A wife is not a servant — though she ought to concern herself with your comfort , it is true . ’ |
| 13 | This is the reason that the ‘ equal-value amendment ’ was passed , which means that a woman seeking equal pay can compare herself with a man doing work of similar value , and not the more stringent condition of a man who is actually doing exactly the same work . |