Example sentences of "had [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 5 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had to satisfy herself with biting her lip and plotting revenge on that red-headed menace who was always disrupting somebody 's life . |
| 11 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 12 | Well , she had saddled herself with something , had n't she ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had comforted herself with her own severity . |