Example sentences of "[prep] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am learning that to narrow a woman 's focus and to make her faceless , as the fog does every day , turns her despite herself against the things she loves best . |
| 2 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 3 | Kylie and a lifesize cardboard cutout of herself at the London launch of her debut album , simply titled Kylie . |
| 4 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 5 | The key passage , from this point of view , is the temptation offered by Weston/Satan ( the Un-Man ) to which the Woman all but yields : the image of herself as a great soul . |
| 6 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 7 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 8 | Her mummy had once shown her photographs of herself as a Brownie many years ago , and Angela had laughed at the funny straw hat and long frock she had worn . |
| 9 | Miss Jarman 's rasping voice cut through Jess 's picture of herself as a fairground tumbler and she repeated her story in a flat monotone , conscious of a depressing conviction that the more often she told it , the more tangled she was becoming in this battle that was all about other people 's money and injured pride . |
| 10 | What she is describing are characteristics of herself as a person , qualities of her own individual personality . |
| 11 | At the same time the end of the period during which the woman has been potentially , at least , a mother may be marked by changes in self-regard and her view of herself as a sexual being . |
| 12 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 13 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 14 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 15 | MIND OVER MATTER : A hijra thinks of herself as a woman |
| 16 | Maybe Angy gave her the sketch of herself as a present ? ’ |
| 17 | Up to that time , I do not believe that she had thought of herself as a candidate for the Leadership . |
| 18 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |
| 19 | Chasseguet-Smirgel ( 1985 ) suggests that a woman 's ego-ideal is constructed first by identification with the mother , and only then by a redefinition of herself as the father 's wife . |
| 20 | She wished she felt as sure of herself as the man so casually lounging opposite her . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's too young to understand , ’ was often the reply , but I did n't want her to think of herself as an object of attention . |
| 22 | She had never thought of herself as an indecisive person , but now she did n't know whether she wanted the time to pass quickly , or whether she wanted to guard jealously the hours left to her of Fen 's company . |
| 23 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 24 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 25 | But she was not taken out of herself by the sweeping cosmic changes of light and colour . |
| 26 | The Green Lady is also the subject of an oil painting ; a portrait of herself in a green dress which the Spanish lady gave to the Bolle family as a gift . |
| 27 | The yolk-yellow walls were layered with seed merchants ' calendars , charts and various photographs of herself in a white coat holding a haltered bull , his forehead dabbed with rosettes , from the days when she bred Herefords . |
| 28 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |
| 29 | Claudia stared at what looked like a photograph of herself in a revealing and over-elaborate evening dress . |
| 30 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |