Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] herself with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Who are we expecting , then ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who , like all good servants , was beginning to identify herself with her employers , and was one reason for her surprising success as a maid of all work . |
| 3 | His client 's optimism and appetites , with equal suddenness , burned clear in opposition , and Charlotte had a vision of two principles in headlong collision , and chose to ally herself with her own kinsman , by intuition and once for all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had comforted herself with her own severity . |