Example sentences of "[vb past] herself with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About to batter the floor with her heel , Lissa stopped herself with a superhuman effort and held herself rigid . |
| 2 | She was tied up until lunch with yet another department meeting but , after a sandwich in the refectory , found herself with a clear afternoon . |
| 3 | Jessamy told herself with a dark frown . |
| 4 | Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean . |
| 5 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 6 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 7 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 8 | Silvia perched herself with a broad smile on the edge of the bed . |
| 9 | Another time she cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer ; on yet another occasion , during a heated argument with Prince Charles , she picked up a penknife lying on his dressing table and cut her chest and her thighs . |
| 10 | And if he decided that he did n't want a divorce ? she asked herself with a small shiver . |
| 11 | Phoebe lying on her bed in her mother 's house in north London , asked herself with a sudden rush of nostalgia . |
| 12 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |
| 13 | The taxi nosed its way back into the traffic as she introduced herself with a soft Cockney accent and a shy manner . |