Example sentences of "[prep] herself in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |
| 2 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wrapping her arms round herself in a futile attempt to retain some body-heat , she began the long walk back to the cottage . |
| 11 | Melanie experimentally walked into it and pulled the door to on herself in a cool smell of cheese and mildew . |
| 12 | Anna looked at Peter again and said to herself in a guilty whisper , ‘ Will he become even more difficult ? ’ |
| 13 | Damn Julius ! she muttered to herself in a great surge of resentment . |
| 14 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 15 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 16 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 17 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 19 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 20 | The walk took only ten minutes and this allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another . |
| 21 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |