Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 2 | Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn . |
| 3 | This time she was able to trap the playful retort before it made it from her mind to her mouth , managing to content herself with an indifferent lift of the shoulders . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , some spark of remaining pride had driven her to array herself in a sprig muslin gown she had bought with the peach , topped by a pretty chipstraw bonnet that at least provided a little place to hide her face under its poking brim . |
| 5 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 6 | I imagine him sliding over to Madonna herself with the words : ‘ I see , right , you and Bobby Gillespie , right , remaking ‘ Like A Virgin ’ , totally naked with a 36-piece orchestra , right . ’ |
| 7 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
| 8 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 9 | She was never told by the London office or by Mary herself of the important part that Miss Read had played in the Tiller story . |
| 10 | The request for release from monstrous tyranny is made by Eirena herself to the Faerie Queene , whose champion Artegall is . |
| 11 | ‘ Picked by Cook herself in the kitchen garden , ’ said Inspector Milsom with evident approval . |