Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , he was no oil painting , but she had long passed the age of needing good looks about her , and anyway , she admitted to herself with disarming frankness , her own beauty had long since gone . |
| 2 | She found that she was able to think of Johnny dispassionately , and she acknowledged to herself with honesty , and a new clarity of understanding , that she did not love him , nor ever could . |
| 3 | Nothing like making up for lost time , she thought to herself with relish . |
| 4 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 5 | They were standing against the light , and their profiles overlapped at close quarters , and haloed them ; they made a vivid show of cock-of-the-roost virility , and she chuckled to herself with pleasure . |
| 6 | I wonder , she said to herself with a sudden lurch of her heart , I wonder if I 'm embarking on something I shall not be able to stop ? |