Example sentences of "by herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary-Claude 's pregnancy had been troublesome from the start , even without the stress of a month 's separation and having to cope by herself with the move back from Cyprus , and Coleman was exhausted from a gruelling month of detailed debriefings by a stream of DIA officers and analysts at an assortment of Ramada Inns in the Baltimore/Washington area . |
| 2 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 3 | But when Jasmine was born they put Joan in a room by herself at the hospital so she could n't see other fathers cuddling their first-born as Bobby would have done . |
| 4 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 5 | The final cost of the garden was $5 million , almost entirely financed by herself through the sale of those deceptively decorated polyester sculptures , perfume and furniture . |
| 6 | Her English teacher found her crying by herself over the job of rearranging the drama cupboard . |
| 7 | Sitting by herself in the kitchen with coffee , looking at the golden forsythia she was aglow with health , energy , accomplishment . |
| 8 | So sometimes she would sit out a dance or two by herself in the outhouse , by the Gironde , by the Garonne , in the Haut-Médoc , the Graves , Entre-Deux-Mers . |
| 9 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 10 | She hated their untidy house and noisy children , and preferred playing by herself in the garden . |
| 11 | So Rosalba dipped the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread , and laughed all by herself in the cool dark room . |
| 12 | She sat by herself in the dining room and looked at me over Anne 's head . |
| 13 | Drinking Irish whisky by herself in the Ladies ' Cloakroom ? " |