Example sentences of "herself with " in BNC.
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| 31 | She soaked herself with petrol before locking herself inside the back of the van for nearly a day . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 34 | He says this was partly due to counsel and partly because she was happy busying herself with her domestic duties . |
| 35 | She consoled herself with the thought that Pet would have been dead before it happened . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | She was more than happy to busy herself with her new home . |
| 38 | It was ajar and he could see the young woman busying herself with chores before reopening the shop for the afternoon trade . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | One Keighley mill warper 's wife found herself with four to care for ; and even one could stir up great resentment . |
| 41 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 42 | After a while she soothed herself with her favourite fantasy ; by a succession of miracles she grew divinely tall , with long , sinewy , racehorse kind of legs and a small straight nose of classic proportions . |
| 43 | With a brave shudder Nelly poured the water on the tea leaves , comforting herself with the thought that boiling water killed germs of all sorts . |
| 44 | True , he was no oil painting , but she had long passed the age of needing good looks about her , and anyway , she admitted to herself with disarming frankness , her own beauty had long since gone . |
| 45 | She had , even at their wedding , surrounded herself with people , nearly all of whom were interesting enough to warrant the close scrutiny of the police . |
| 46 | 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 . ’ |
| 47 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 48 | She took off her shoes , and lay down fully clothed , covering herself with a heavy quilt . |
| 49 | But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak . |
| 50 | Michel de Montaigne , a French writer of the same era , managed to avoid this hypocrisy , stating honestly that , ‘ When I play with my cat who knows whether she diverts herself with me , or I with her . |
| 51 | Breeze , of course , already had her afternoon job at the Vicarage , and , as the nurse left soon afterwards , she found herself with her salary increased to fifteen shillings a week and little Nancy to look after , as well as the two boys , and Korah , Dathan and Abiram . |
| 52 | Mother looked at them , shook her head and sighed , then advising Etty to rinse herself with the warm water , she turned , stood up , and moved towards the door , unaware that her apron-strings were entangled with a handle of the zinc-tub … |
| 53 | ‘ I 've seen 'em loading up the Guineamen ready to sail for Africa , ’ she said , thrusting away the indignity of being shackled , cheering herself with talk . |
| 54 | At first she could meet his eyes , but what she saw confused her and she looked at the floor , colour creeping into her cheeks , reacting against the tenderness surprised in herself with a sense of shock that made her brusque and suspicious . |
| 55 | I myself saw a girl hang herself with a vine . ’ |
| 56 | Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy . |
| 57 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 58 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 59 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 60 | When her son was badly injured in a road accident , she nursed him to the point of exhaustion , refusing outside help , and comforted herself with the thought that if only her family knew what she was going through , they would rush to her rescue . |