Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 2 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 3 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 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 | Dicey 's 1914 Introduction may be read as a lament ; having adopted an optimistic view of the impact of democracy on the workings of the British constitution he realized his error and wished to realign himself with Bagehot 's — if not Maine 's — more pessimistic position . |
| 9 | That was the final insult , then ; Tony , after hearing Felicity 's opinion of him , had not crept away in chastened mood , but had consoled himself with sandwiches . |