Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 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 | His client 's optimism and appetites , with equal suddenness , burned clear in opposition , and Charlotte had a vision of two principles in headlong collision , and chose to ally herself with her own kinsman , by intuition and once for all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |