Example sentences of "herself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 2 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 3 | Jay had a horror of moths flying into her face and hair ; she liked to think of herself as someone who cups her hands for moths and spiders and frees them . |
| 4 | More or less fancied herself as a fox , the largest predator in the British Isles , beautiful pelt , amber eyes , full and gorgeous tail ; a stink to drive away the timid . |
| 5 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At the same time , through a somewhat unlikely relationship with the emergent Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , she was able to present herself as no longer an ‘ iron lady ’ but an instrument of greater international co-operation . |
| 9 | Indeed she once described herself as ‘ the Cabinet rebel ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mrs Thatcher , however , has remained a mobilizer ; she clearly regards herself as Heath plus , providing greater political will and persistence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | MRS BODY 'S mother-in-law , otherwise known as Tracey 's Gran , dies in the middle of Neighbours , revealing herself as a woman of sensibility . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 16 | No fool , Berenson went in for finding ‘ Isabellas ’ ; Mrs Gardner fancied herself as America 's answer to Isabella d'Este , the great Renaissance art collector . |
| 17 | He wanted Gina to see herself as other people would see her . |
| 18 | She saw herself as an unlikeable person . |
| 19 | Zoe describes herself as ‘ a chameleon ’ ‘ I do what I like and I have a good time doing it . ’ |
| 20 | For Dorothea suddenly saw herself as an old woman badgering a friend into giving up her time and company , and , self-sufficient as she had always been , the picture repelled her . |
| 21 | One woman advertised herself as Madam Homa , an imaginative name . |
| 22 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 23 | Kylie , by now Neighbours most popular character , teamed up with her younger sister who had now established herself as a star on a TV series Young Talent Time . |
| 24 | But more astute moves made even before she had established herself as a world star had guaranteed that she collected an above average share of the money her records were making . |
| 25 | She presented herself as a mass of curly hair , decorated with huge teeth and knobbly knees . |
| 26 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |
| 27 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She introduces herself as a representative of the government . |
| 30 | These theories enabled Prussia to present herself as the motor of German unification , a metaphor which connotes both power and a leading role . |