Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 2 | There was persistent rumour ( probably close to the truth ) bandied about by the local gentry , that Anthony Foster had hidden himself with a paid labourer at Cumnor Place . |
| 3 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 4 | The Sadducee High Priest , appointed by the Romans , was assassinated by the Zealots , and a major terrorist campaign was launched against other Sadducees who had aligned themselves with Rome . |
| 5 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 6 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 7 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 8 | Someone must always have discharged these duties ; but the mention of these officials in eleventh-century households pointed to two developments : firstly , a conscious imitation of Carolingian ways ( for Charlemagne and his heirs had surrounded themselves with seneschals and stewards ) , and secondly , a revived interest in administration . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 12 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 13 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 14 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 15 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 16 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 17 | Billy had armed himself with a stout stick . |
| 18 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He admitted that he had injected himself with speed two days before the police acted on the search warrant on January 20th . |
| 23 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 24 | But so much depended on the interpretation : if only Yorick had contented himself with unvarnished English prose . |
| 25 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Following the Coopers merger with Deloittes , Pearson had found itself with three firms of auditors — Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen in the US and Coopers & Lybrand in the rest of the world — a situation it found cumbersome and expensive . |
| 29 | There was hope of an Army rebellion to unseat Hitler , but firmer news that he had ringed himself with his most loyal SS units , doubling his personal security . |
| 30 | She had to satisfy herself with biting her lip and plotting revenge on that red-headed menace who was always disrupting somebody 's life . |