Example sentences of "[verb] herself as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | MRS BODY 'S mother-in-law , otherwise known as Tracey 's Gran , dies in the middle of Neighbours , revealing herself as a woman of sensibility . |
| 2 | The Commissioner herself was sensitive to this perception , and was keen , right from the start , to establish herself as an independent and neutral body . |
| 3 | Dolle described herself as a dancer ( she had worked in Las Vegas ) and a traveller . |
| 4 | Caroline Moore , who described herself as a professor of dance , occupied number 1 . |
| 5 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 6 | Another woman resolutely described herself as a ‘ shrink wrapper ’ rather than a housewife . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Finally , there was Miss Marita Calagarri , who described herself as an unemployed ship 's cook . |
| 9 | Eleanor , disguising herself as a man , attempted to join them , but was captured and spent the rest of Henry II 's reign in prison . |
| 10 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 11 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 12 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 13 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 14 | Doctor Maingay regarded herself as a resource for others . |
| 15 | Whereas someone more conventional , like Sue Lawley , who describes herself as a ‘ post-feminist woman ’ , is actually much better at drawing out chat show guests . |
| 16 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 17 | He meets a character who describes herself as a ‘ girl-spy ’ . |
| 18 | She cheerfully describes herself as a ‘ big girlie ’ . |
| 19 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 20 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 21 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 22 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 23 | Virginia Woolf , in her Bloomsbury circle , could hardly have been closer to the metropolitan heart of England , yet she , too , found a foreignness within it , deliberately defining herself as an alien . |
| 24 | Her tone was educated , mocking : she did n't see herself as a servant because she was n't one . |
| 25 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 26 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 27 | As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she sees herself as a facilitator for the Vice-Chancellor , the University 's Chief Executive . |
| 28 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 29 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher has a clear view of her role as Prime Minister and sees herself as an activist rather than an arbitrator in Cabinet disputes or a spokesman for a collective Cabinet view . |