Example sentences of "herself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 2 | But chided herself the next moment . |
| 3 | ‘ Each suburban wife , as she made the beds , shopped for groceries , ate peanut-butter sandwiches with her children , chauffeured Cubs and Brownies , lay beside her husband at night , was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question , ‘ Is this all ? ’ ’ |
| 4 | The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners . |
| 5 | Leila closed her eyes , visualising for herself the pleasant warmth of Ari 's fantasy world . |
| 6 | She would keep to herself the colour of her days — white Mondays , bordered in yellow , mahogany-brown Sundays . |
| 7 | Both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power on a platform of military rhetoric with Reagan calling Russia an evil empire and Mrs Thatcher earning herself the title of the Iron Lady . |
| 8 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 9 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 10 | Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted . |
| 11 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 13 | A thin wiry woman , her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling . |
| 14 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 15 | Her heroine on the show is Lightning and she has already christened herself the junior version , Spark . |
| 16 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 17 | The Queen of the Night must understand these instincts , if she is to have control over them ; she must know her own wildness , and sense within herself the vigilance of the owl and the cunning of the fox before she can bring them into her domain . |
| 18 | Then she went on with the lovely task of making herself the most important lady in Tollemarche . |
| 19 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 20 | The intricate and ever-growing industrial co-operation of the civilised nations through trade does not permit any nation to keep to herself the gain of any market she may hold . |
| 21 | Minuchin 's description of the anorexic as one who takes upon herself the burden of familial conflicts and the internal conflicts of those around her indicates that the anorexic ‘ sees ’ what is going on within and among other people in a very special way . |
| 22 | LIZ MCCOLGAN is out to prove herself the iron woman of athletics in tomorrow 's IAAF/Diet Coke World half marathon championship on Tyneside . |
| 23 | Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles . |
| 24 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |
| 25 | Connections quickly came to the fore in the application , however , for Kinnoull pointed out that the wife of the minister of Tippermuir was a lady ‘ for whom the Dowager Lady Findlater has a particular regard ’ , and she was herself the niece of Sir James Grant 's uncle , Sir William Dunbar . |
| 26 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 27 | For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West . |
| 28 | Pretending that they desired only to rid the country of a tyrant , on 21 February 1437 they burst into the Blackfriars monastery in Perth in spite of the attempt by Catherine Douglas , one of the queen 's attendants , to bar the door by using her arm as a bolt , earning herself the name of Kate-Bar-the-Door . |
| 29 | " Look , " said Alice , feeling in herself the beginnings of an all too familiar weight and drag . |
| 30 | But Alix and Brian had found one another , and so had Otto and Caroline Werner : Esther was caught between lofty Edgar and little Pete Petrie , herself the smallest of all . |