Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] herself with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen turned her broad kindly face away and busied herself with dinner preparations . |
| 2 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 3 | She disposed of her errand , and armed herself with cash , and they went to shop , the usual duty shopping for the household , the more esoteric lines which were not stocked and delivered locally ; and a few items for her own pleasure . |
| 4 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |
| 5 | This was the very thought in her head as she turned the corner of the corridor and back into the waiting room and saw the weeping figure of a woman hunched over and hugging herself with grief . |
| 6 | ‘ She staggered and fell ; nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead ; but raising herself with difficulty … breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker . |