Example sentences of "be [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 2 | She remembered because she had seen her drive off and it was unusual for ‘ a señora of her quality ’ to be driving herself with no companion . |
| 3 | And in doing so , she is internalising , that is , she is filling herself with what does not rightfully belong to her . |
| 4 | But otherwise everything 's written down and we have bought the e of the computer but Wendy is familiarizing herself with it and it 's quite hard work . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's killing herself with what she eats , ’ said Lord Grubb to the three left at the table , who felt they should be listening to nothing . |
| 6 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 7 | If Madeleine was enjoying herself with her ‘ Pogo ’ , he could enjoy himself with Cora-Beth , who probably cared about him far more than Madeleine ever had . |
| 8 | Billie was fanning herself with the blanket to cool the sweat that was running down her body . |
| 9 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 10 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |