Example sentences of "herself [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 3 | To vanish and give herself the chance to rebuild her life . |
| 4 | When the woman put her hand up to protect herself the man grabbed two rings off her fingers but they were later recovered in the car . |
| 5 | She would keep to herself the colour of her days — white Mondays , bordered in yellow , mahogany-brown Sundays . |
| 6 | Erm , well C commands roughly it 's just a noun phrase , which can endow the pronoun with a reference or an interpretation , so if Florence saw herself Florence is a noun phrase and gives herself the reference Florence . |
| 7 | Debbie Raymond who called herself the Princess of Porn was one of Britain 's richest women and had been groomed to take over her father 's £80m-a-year business . |
| 8 | Giving herself the advantage of surprise , she ripped open the door . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She did not really need to ask herself the question . |
| 11 | No sooner had she asked herself the question than she realized the folly of it — and of the fees she had already demanded . |
| 12 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 13 | , Baroness Louise ( c. 1784–1870 ) , royal governess , was born c .1784 in Hanover , a younger child among the two sons and seven daughters of a Lutheran pastor and his wife , Melusine Palm , herself the child of a clergyman . |
| 14 | A WOMAN who has spent her life caring for others was herself the centre of attention at the weekend . |
| 15 | Sophie nodded , keeping to herself the thought that George was expounding a powerful argument against the keeping of animals in zoos . |
| 16 | She kept maniacally busy so as not to feel sorrow and set herself the goal of working so hard that at night she fell into bed exhausted . |
| 17 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Isabel had told her , unable to deny herself the relief of letting the truth out at last . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sixsmith 's estranged second wife , it emerged , herself the daughter of two alcoholics , was an alcoholic . |
| 22 | Refusing to allow herself the indulgence of looking in the mirror and repairing her make-up , she walked slowly back down the hall and opened the door again with trembling hands . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Behind her dark glasses , she constructed for herself the illusion of security . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Had already admitted to herself the extent of her own love for him . |
| 27 | She gave herself the morning off and left the hacienda . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Frere was unaware of it but his sister-in-law had spared herself the burden of a second letter . |
| 30 | 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 . |