Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She decided to extricate herself with dignity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had comforted herself with her own severity . |
| 7 | Well , she had saddled herself with something , had n't she ? |
| 8 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 9 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 10 | She had to satisfy herself with biting her lip and plotting revenge on that red-headed menace who was always disrupting somebody 's life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh . |