Example sentences of "herself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace switched on the spacewalk jets and launched herself through the widening yawn of the doors . |
| 2 | The doorbell pealed and Julia shot upstairs from the basement , flung herself through the green baize door and then walked slowly and decorously across the black and white tiled hall . |
| 3 | He was followed by a head and a paw as the now enraged Rosie attempted to squeeze herself through the same opening . |
| 4 | Picture her , Tabitha Jute : not as the net media show her , heroine of hyperspace , capable , canny and cosmetically enhanced , smiling confidently as she reaches with one hand for the spangled mist of the Milky Way ; but a small , weary young woman in a cracked foil jacket and oil-stained trousers , determinedly elbowing herself through an exuberant Schiaparelli crowd . |
| 5 | ‘ Stop it , both of you ! ’ she exclaimed , pushing herself between the two of them . |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine how we would have reacted if our teacher had identified herself as a practising heterosexual and shared the secrets of her lifestyle . |
| 7 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 11 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 12 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Orlan , 45 , is currently showing a video of her last operation as she tours Australia to display herself as a living work of art . |
| 18 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 19 | Her expert fingers fumbled clumsily at his fly , as she wanted to present herself as a nervous , but willing , maiden . |
| 20 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 21 | Why did she cast herself as a resourceful ‘ maid ’ ? |
| 22 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 23 | Kathryn Stott has already established herself as a sensitive interpreter of French music with recitals of Fauré and Debussy , and now here she is in Ravel — and in two works at least ( Gaspard and Le tombeau de Couperin ) which are technically especially challenging . |
| 24 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |
| 25 | Asserting herself as a conceptual artist , considering all her work as creative , whether working with other people or developing ideas for further projects , jane nevertheless sees spending time on to her people 's creativity as a Catch-22 situation . |
| 26 | The nurse brings to the relationship herself as a unique human being , the culmination of her particular life experiences . |
| 27 | In 1972 , the cult of his personality began to take off , and his wife , Elena , was suddenly prominently at his side on big occasions , staking out a role for herself as a formidable political force . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was marrying one of America 's richest heiresses , who was , Stair had drunkenly informed him , ‘ As ugly as a pug dog , ’ solely for her money , and was proposing to bed Madame Rachel herself as a preliminary to his marriage at St Margaret 's , Westminster , the following morning , the biggest society wedding of the year . |