Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] herself with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 2 | Isabella Rosellini has armed herself with a fizzing S and V — ve vill , vo n't we ? |
| 3 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 4 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 5 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 9 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But she bore the pain stoically , trying to comfort herself with the thought that Luke was unaccustomed to failure with women . |