Example sentences of "[vb pp] herself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pantry displays examples of all the home-made preserves the farmer 's wife would have busied herself with . |
| 3 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The officer had quickly positioned herself with one foot on either side of Madeleine 's head , and was crouched down over her face . |
| 6 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 7 | They all knew that Freddie had , as usual , ended yet another affair , but they reckoned that Liza could have consoled herself with any number of more suitable admirers . |
| 8 | Isabella Rosellini has armed herself with a fizzing S and V — ve vill , vo n't we ? |
| 9 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 10 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 13 | This clearly symbolised Russia 's new strength and the international position to which she had now raised herself with spectacular speed . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak . |
| 18 | Well , she had saddled herself with something , had n't she ? |
| 19 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household . |
| 22 | She had comforted herself with her own severity . |
| 23 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |