Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] herself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 2 | Radclyffe Hall described herself as a ‘ congenital invert ’ , called herself ‘ John ’ , the name Radclyffe Hall being reserved for her publications , and was strikingly masculine in appearance . |
| 3 | No fool , Berenson went in for finding ‘ Isabellas ’ ; Mrs Gardner fancied herself as America 's answer to Isabella d'Este , the great Renaissance art collector . |
| 4 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 5 | Doctor Maingay regarded herself as a resource for others . |
| 6 | For a moment , Miranda saw herself as one of those lovely heroines who could never forget , who pined away beautifully on velvet chaise-longues . |
| 7 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
| 8 | She describes the circumstances in which she chose to focus on these tales : ‘ hearing a black woman describe herself as a daughter of Hagar outside the covenant ; … reading news reports of the dismembered body of a woman found in a trash can ’ . |
| 9 | Emily saw herself as the Elephant 's Child in the Just So Stories , drawn by her ‘ satiable curiosity to partake of all new experience . |
| 10 | One woman advertised herself as Madam Homa , an imaginative name . |
| 11 | Very shyly , the woman introduced herself as Georgette Aboud . |
| 12 | Orlan , 45 , is currently showing a video of her last operation as she tours Australia to display herself as a living work of art . |
| 13 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 14 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 15 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 16 | He wanted Gina to see herself as other people would see her . |
| 17 | Angela describes herself as ‘ a mobile Hatch End ’ , but adds that the philosophy has changed radically , with a new emphasis on local , tailor-made training in the UK . |
| 18 | Leapor describes herself as the woman 's ‘ Slave ’ in ‘ The Disappointment ’ [ ML , 2 , 81 ] . |
| 19 | Zoe describes herself as ‘ a chameleon ’ ‘ I do what I like and I have a good time doing it . ’ |
| 20 | I think this Samantha fancies herself as a bit of a girl , know what I mean ? ’ |
| 21 | But unknown to me , Lesley had approached the Chairman of Governors to insist that she as senior management ( because Lesley sees herself as senior management ) should be all owed to interview staff . |
| 22 | These theories enabled Prussia to present herself as the motor of German unification , a metaphor which connotes both power and a leading role . |
| 23 | Dolle described herself as a dancer ( she had worked in Las Vegas ) and a traveller . |
| 24 | With a delicate sniff in the direction of a slightly cowed Hester Davis , Mrs Stych enrolled herself as a sleuth in search of an author . |