Example sentences of "herself with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Keighley mill warper 's wife found herself with four to care for ; and even one could stir up great resentment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 4 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 5 | Surely it would be better to content herself with that than stay on , laying herself open to inevitable heartbreak . |
| 6 | Milan , Caroline said to herself with that sudden , strange insight fate often provides . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She 's always been one to surround herself with young bucks . |
| 9 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 10 | And she involves herself with equal energy in various local charities . |
| 11 | After an evening of work here , she felt she must look like a cod or haddock herself with dull eyes and open mouth . |
| 12 | This clearly symbolised Russia 's new strength and the international position to which she had now raised herself with spectacular speed . |
| 13 | But Fatima was laughing and loving herself with crossed arms . |
| 14 | As it was , Europe had not been able to supply herself with all her needs since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 16 | Having accepted that she must wear it , Alexandra then set herself to dress for the pleasure of the Rectory children , throwing good taste to the winds and insisting upon hanging herself with all that glittered from the jewel box Aunt Emily had left her , its rose suede depths heaped with treasures from Richard Talbot . |
| 17 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 18 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 19 | The officer had quickly positioned herself with one foot on either side of Madeleine 's head , and was crouched down over her face . |
| 20 | Biting her lips , she turned away , pretending to busy herself with one of the other costumes . |
| 21 | True , she was going to leave herself with one very big headache with regard to her mortgage , but even that was not unsurmountable . |
| 22 | And when the satin had been recovered and she had found — after a painful , dry-mouthed fortnight of dosing herself with cheap gin and jumping down the cellar steps whenever Odette was not looking — that she was , miraculously , not pregnant , she had believed her luck to be on the turn . |
| 23 | She contents herself with short , heartfelt abuse of the dickhead kind . |
| 24 | ‘ It does her ego good to flirt with me ; it 's the star of the show 's privilege to indulge herself with up-and-coming actors like myself — I 'm not kidding you , ’ he had told them , ‘ she 's all over me when we film ! ’ |
| 25 | But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever . |
| 26 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She sat down again , hugging herself with both arms . |
| 29 | Bridget made a sympathetic comment and then went off to busy herself with another chore . |
| 30 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |