Example sentences of "herself as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She presented herself as a mass of curly hair , decorated with huge teeth and knobbly knees . |
| 9 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She introduces herself as a representative of the government . |
| 12 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 13 | One woman , describing herself as a ‘ member of an endangered species — the miner 's wife ’ , movingly portrayed the material and spiritual desolation that pit closures had brought to the South Wales valleys . |
| 14 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 15 | She has built a reputation for herself as a specialist in the area and is not involved as photographic director for Al-Wasat , a magazine based in London , which is launched this month for distribution throughout the Arab world . |
| 16 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 17 | Dolle described herself as a dancer ( she had worked in Las Vegas ) and a traveller . |
| 18 | Eleanor , disguising herself as a man , attempted to join them , but was captured and spent the rest of Henry II 's reign in prison . |
| 19 | Whereas someone more conventional , like Sue Lawley , who describes herself as a ‘ post-feminist woman ’ , is actually much better at drawing out chat show guests . |
| 20 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 21 | Her mummy had once shown her photographs of herself as a Brownie many years ago , and Angela had laughed at the funny straw hat and long frock she had worn . |
| 22 | The nurse brings to the relationship herself as a unique human being , the culmination of her particular life experiences . |
| 23 | Caroline Moore , who described herself as a professor of dance , occupied number 1 . |
| 24 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 25 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 26 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 27 | In the longer term , a woman 's feeling about herself as a mother will affect her moods and how she behaves in that role . |
| 28 | These factors continued to make it more difficult for him to provide the separateness and space that Liddie needed if she were to develop her limited confidence in herself as a mother . |
| 29 | She laughs at herself as a girl again . |
| 30 | While she presented herself as a target , the second galley had rowed against the wind north . |