Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] herself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved of her professional role , she manifested herself as an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne . |
| 2 | Caroline Moore , who described herself as a professor of dance , occupied number 1 . |
| 3 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 4 | Finally , there was Miss Marita Calagarri , who described herself as an unemployed ship 's cook . |
| 5 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 6 | She regarded herself as ‘ a woman , unlettered , feeble and frail ’ yet comes across with sanity , strength and tenderness . |
| 7 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He meets a character who describes herself as a ‘ girl-spy ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Jane Lloyd paints flowers — she describes herself as ‘ an ordinary oil painter ’ — and has often shown at Kew Gardens . |
| 13 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 14 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 15 | Sometimes people addressed letters mistakenly to Lady Muriel Selvedge , and on these occasions she imagined herself as the daughter of an earl , a marquess , or even a duke , comfortably unmarried . |
| 16 | She introduces herself as a representative of the government . |
| 17 | Her irresponsible Flora , who sees herself as ‘ the soul of kindness ’ , and indeed is adored by people who see her in a very different light from that in which she sees herself , is ( or would be , if she were allowed ) catastrophic in her influence on other lives . |
| 18 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she sees herself as a facilitator for the Vice-Chancellor , the University 's Chief Executive . |
| 21 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 22 | She sees herself as ‘ a fighter and a campaigner who is good at getting to the root of the problem , ’ adding : ‘ I am particularly interested in the individual , personal difficulties that people have . ’ |
| 23 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 24 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 25 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 26 | She saw herself as an unlikeable person . |
| 27 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 28 | Growing up in Hawaii , she saw herself as a ‘ gawky , flat-chested string bean with a frizzy mass of hair ’ . |
| 29 | She saw herself as such a jolly little girl . |
| 30 | Was this just because she saw herself as a Frieda Lawrence figure , or was there some firmer basis for it ? |