Example sentences of "herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Vaughan contented herself with training as a nurse and avidly reading food books in her spare time . |
| 2 | Always insists on a room to herself with a lock on the door . ’ |
| 3 | Bridget made a sympathetic comment and then went off to busy herself with another chore . |
| 4 | Crushed ambitions and women 's lib feelings had rallied to the author 's right to identify herself with a polished ship . |
| 5 | Now she identified herself with the future , as freedom was breaking out everywhere , and Labour with the failed past . |
| 6 | Phoebe lying on her bed in her mother 's house in north London , asked herself with a sudden rush of nostalgia . |
| 7 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |
| 8 | Rose 's mother showed the girls the house and the fowl and farm animals , including a pet goat who would n't let Rose milk her unless she sprayed herself with a perfume that the mother used . |
| 9 | Sisterlike or not , Frau Nordern 's word was enough and Erika found herself with a glass of light Hungarian wine and enjoying it , too . |
| 10 | This left Lady Arran free to fortify herself with a large tot of rum . |
| 11 | She contents herself with short , heartfelt abuse of the dickhead kind . |
| 12 | Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child . |
| 13 | She ate placidly , acknowledging to herself with her customary good sense that at the moment , as at any time since her brother William had died , she and Penelope were getting no pleasure at all from each other 's company . |
| 14 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 15 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 16 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ And remember , ’ she told herself with growing horror , ‘ what Mr Bishop 's brother said ! |
| 21 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 22 | She bound her arms from the shoulder to the elbow with thick cords … she rubbed herself with nettles … [ in her full length hair shirt ] she appeared more glorious in the eyes of God from her having armed it underneath with a great quantity of points of needles to increase her suffering by this ingenious cruelty … |
| 23 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 24 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 25 | Begin again , distant and spare , a clinical account of how a man — an economist — encountered a beautiful brown woman , the one hundred and fifty-sixth prostitute to spread herself with simulated murmurs and greedy eyes beneath his unslaked loins . |
| 26 | It is quite breathtaking , for instance , that her sympathies are so strong for another girl whom she sees as literally killing herself with exercise , yet she does n't really extend her sympathies or concern towards herself . |
| 27 | ‘ She says she can be herself with me , for the first time ; can let herself go . ’ |
| 28 | Rose contented herself with stealing half of Evelyn 's breakfast and stamping on her foot , but her heart was n't really in it . |
| 29 | It is indeed a middling grand house , in red brick with three storeys of segment-headed windows characteristic of the early Georgian , and just the shape to frame the passionate , scarred face of Rosa Dartle , destroying herself with unrequited love for the seducer Steerforth . |
| 30 | But Yorke wisely confines the psychology to the sub-text and contents herself with keeping the narrative moving . |