Example sentences of "[prep] herself as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |
| 11 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |