Example sentences of "herself [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate . |
| 3 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 6 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Her ability , like that of Lloyd George ( a previous premier for whom she had no affection ) to project herself as an outsider , detached from her party leadership , her civil service , even the Cabinet which she led , was a vital key to her effectiveness and impact . |
| 10 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 11 | She refused to look upon herself as an invalid , but it might be sensible to take a tonic , say , during the coming winter months , and to catch up with the loss of sleep she had so cheerfully endured . |
| 12 | When she finally shook herself away , she found herself sailing into yet more stagnant waters , for there , directly in her way , unavoidable , smiling passively , uncomfortably , yet unavoidably , was Lady Henrietta , dutifully offering herself for an exchange with her hostess . |
| 13 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 14 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |
| 15 | Theresa Nolan , who nursed his mother and slept in his house , killed herself after an abortion . |
| 16 | A young nurse , Theresa Nolan , who nursed his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , killed herself after an abortion , and it was Berowne who found the body . |
| 17 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 18 | But Christine put the fern back on the sill and deflated herself into an armchair by the window . |
| 19 | The effect is that the individual identifies herself with an existence which is imposed upon her . |
| 20 | A YOUNG mother suffering from post-natal depression killed herself with an overdose of drugs after leaving her baby daughter alone in their home . |
| 21 | She controlled herself with an effort . |
| 22 | Controlling herself with an effort , she rose to her feet , caught completely off guard at the way her pulse raced , totally illogically , at the mere sight of him . |
| 23 | JENNY was waiting for her in the lounge of the Black Lion occupying herself with an evening newspaper . |
| 24 | Loretta led the way into the drawing-room and settled herself in an armchair . |
| 25 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 26 | He poured half a glass of neat Scotch , raised it to Leonora who had seated herself in an arm chair , erect and elegant . |
| 27 | She removed her wooden pattens and , concealing them in her cloak , slipped noiselessly into the tower , past the guardchamber and up the winding stairs to the middle floor where she concealed herself in an alcove outside the chamber door . |
| 28 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 29 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 30 | She reached out and helped herself to an almond pastry . |