Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She decided to extricate herself with dignity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 11 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 12 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 13 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 14 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 15 | Almost certainly before Rachel an ancient goddess shed tears there bewailing her lover and , as Anat did for Ba'al , she ‘ continued sating herself with weeping , To drink tears like wine ’ . |
| 16 | After her husband 's death she had borne herself with a mournful dignity which had done her standing no harm , and taken the funeral food to the tomb herself with a regularity and devotion which would have shamed women lamenting better-loved partners . |
| 17 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 18 | Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves . |
| 19 | But once the business had been established and the initial problems of setting it up had been dealt with , she had found herself with a certain amount of time at her disposal , time to relax , time to remember . |
| 20 | She had to satisfy herself with biting her lip and plotting revenge on that red-headed menace who was always disrupting somebody 's life . |
| 21 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 22 | Well , she had saddled herself with something , had n't she ? |
| 23 | She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh . |
| 24 | Fei Yen was looking down , the p'ip'a resting loosely against her breasts , her whole frame bent forward , as if she had emptied herself with the song . |
| 25 | She had comforted herself with her own severity . |