Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 3 | She regarded herself as ‘ a woman , unlettered , feeble and frail ’ yet comes across with sanity , strength and tenderness . |
| 4 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Jane Lloyd paints flowers — she describes herself as ‘ an ordinary oil painter ’ — and has often shown at Kew Gardens . |
| 6 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She introduces herself as a representative of the government . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she sees herself as a facilitator for the Vice-Chancellor , the University 's Chief Executive . |
| 12 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She saw herself as an unlikeable person . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Growing up in Hawaii , she saw herself as a ‘ gawky , flat-chested string bean with a frizzy mass of hair ’ . |
| 18 | She saw herself as such a jolly little girl . |
| 19 | Was this just because she saw herself as a Frieda Lawrence figure , or was there some firmer basis for it ? |
| 20 | In her self-portrait at the Tate Gallery ( c.1930 ) she presents herself as an artist at work with the canvas just perceivable to the right and a brush in hand . |
| 21 | She introduced herself as Mrs Stanfield and appeared genuine . |
| 22 | I went round the tables that night as usual , making everybody feel welcome , and she introduced herself as Clare 's sister . |
| 23 | Why did she cast herself as a resourceful ‘ maid ’ ? |
| 24 | She presented herself as a mass of curly hair , decorated with huge teeth and knobbly knees . |
| 25 | While she presented herself as a target , the second galley had rowed against the wind north . |
| 26 | He shuddered , and groaned aloud , and the sperm hit her dress , on her stomach near her navel ; it soaked through the cotton like the spreading warmth of pee , reminding her of when she wet herself as a child , and gave off a quick raw smell . |
| 27 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 28 | The woman before her introduced herself as Antonietta Calvino . |