Example sentences of "[verb] herself [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't even like the term actress ( or actor ) , seeing herself more as a performer . |
| 2 | She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre . |
| 3 | She liked to project herself more as a friend than a doctor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |