Example sentences of "[verb] herself [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 2 | She said she did n't mind Elizabeth being Queen at all , and had no doubt she was a very good one too , but that it was evil and presumptuous of her — the illegitimate daughter of an excommunicated heretic and a beheaded adulteress — to set herself up as defender of the Faith . |
| 3 | She was inspired and strengthened by seeing herself not as a passive victim , or a cancer patient , but as an individual working for her own health and well-being . |
| 4 | She does n't even like the term actress ( or actor ) , seeing herself more as a performer . |
| 5 | He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh . |
| 6 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 7 | She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre . |
| 8 | She liked to project herself more as a friend than a doctor . |
| 9 | In some of the cases O'Connell and Russo describe , gender seems irrelevant : the young psychologist saw herself simply as a disciple of the older man . |
| 10 | She closed her tired , bloodshot eyes and saw herself again as a young woman , buxom and pregnant , set down in wild bush country , her only asset a husband as young and as strong as herself . |
| 11 | She saw herself perhaps as an Elizabeth Bowen heroine — for one did not openly identify oneself with Jane Austen 's heroines and To The North was her favourite novel . |
| 12 | All the same , she realised she had to earn a living to support herself and Matt , and hit upon the idea of setting herself up as a hairdresser . |
| 13 | But seen face to face , even in the informality of her own house , the absence of a spark of sexuality and , he sensed , a deep-seated reserve , made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected , and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space . |