Example sentences of "[prep] herself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 2 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 3 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 9 | She had never thought of herself as an indecisive person , but now she did n't know whether she wanted the time to pass quickly , or whether she wanted to guard jealously the hours left to her of Fen 's company . |
| 10 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 11 | But she was not taken out of herself by the sweeping cosmic changes of light and colour . |
| 12 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |
| 13 | Claudia stared at what looked like a photograph of herself in a revealing and over-elaborate evening dress . |
| 14 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 15 | Catching sight of herself in a full-length , cane-framed mirror on the wall , she paused , a sick feeling growing inside her , and she groaned . |
| 16 | The Green Lady is also the subject of an oil painting ; a portrait of herself in a green dress which the Spanish lady gave to the Bolle family as a gift . |
| 17 | The yolk-yellow walls were layered with seed merchants ' calendars , charts and various photographs of herself in a white coat holding a haltered bull , his forehead dabbed with rosettes , from the days when she bred Herefords . |
| 18 | After her brief confrontation with Romano de Sciorto she was trembling all over , she registered dimly , catching sight of herself in an ornate Venetian mirror on the wall . |
| 19 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 20 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 21 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 22 | But a dull flush was creeping up her neck , and colouring her cheeks , and she felt furious with herself for the tell-tale signs of insecurity , for the ease with which the other girl had succeeded in humiliating her … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Shirley Eaton looked fetching in her nurse 's uniform and a young probationer nurse was laying the tracks for a totally new profession for herself as the overemotional wallflower among the blossoming beauties of the hospital . |
| 25 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
| 26 | A year after our idle talk at Windrush , Judith Evelyn was in New York rehearsing her leading lines for Patrick Campbell 's great play ‘ Gaslight ’ , in which she starred on Broadway from December , 1941 ( the same week as Pearl Harbour ) for the next two years , and made a lasting name for herself in the American theatre . |
| 27 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 28 | Like the Jewish American comedian Joan Rivers , for example , who tells jokes about herself as a Jewish woman that key into other women 's silent insecurities . |
| 29 | Wrapping her arms round herself in a futile attempt to retain some body-heat , she began the long walk back to the cottage . |
| 30 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |