Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw . |
| 2 | Better to distract herself with Giles . |
| 3 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 4 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 5 | It is quite breathtaking , for instance , that her sympathies are so strong for another girl whom she sees as literally killing herself with exercise , yet she does n't really extend her sympathies or concern towards herself . |
| 6 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 7 | She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household . |
| 8 | The officer had quickly positioned herself with one foot on either side of Madeleine 's head , and was crouched down over her face . |
| 9 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 10 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 11 | No doubt she will also enjoy herself with the best of our manhood . ’ |
| 12 | France , for example , which also equipped herself with consuls in India and Malaya ( Singapore , 1839 ; Calcutta , 1846 ; Bombay , 1866 ) established one in Canton , after some earlier unsuccessful attempts , in 1843 and others in Hongkong , Hankow and Tientsin from 1862 . |
| 13 | But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it . |
| 14 | This clearly symbolised Russia 's new strength and the international position to which she had now raised herself with spectacular speed . |
| 15 | But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak . |
| 16 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 17 | Liz Spalding squatted down on the floor , winked at Nick , then covered herself with a blanket . |
| 18 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 19 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 20 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 21 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |