Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] herself as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
2 | For Dorothea suddenly saw herself as an old woman badgering a friend into giving up her time and company , and , self-sufficient as she had always been , the picture repelled her . |
3 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
4 | Kathryn Stott has already established herself as a sensitive interpreter of French music with recitals of Fauré and Debussy , and now here she is in Ravel — and in two works at least ( Gaspard and Le tombeau de Couperin ) which are technically especially challenging . |
5 | She has already established herself as a backing singer specialising in jazz and stands to win professional recording sessions . |
6 | Finn married a witch called Saar , who usually manifested herself as a deer . |
7 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
8 | Virginia Woolf , in her Bloomsbury circle , could hardly have been closer to the metropolitan heart of England , yet she , too , found a foreignness within it , deliberately defining herself as an alien . |
9 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
10 | Lisa still saw herself as a ‘ smoker ’ who was struggling to give up , rather than as a ‘ non-smoker ’ ( who might occasionally have a cigarette ) . |
11 | She is there at a general , collective level ; she may also reveal herself as a polarized force ; and again as the inner light of the individual . |
12 | Lesley does n't really judge herself as a musician anyway , but was quite happy to be judged as woman first because she is ‘ immensely proud ’ of her gender . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | She cheerfully describes herself as a ‘ big girlie ’ . |
15 | Another woman resolutely described herself as a ‘ shrink wrapper ’ rather than a housewife . |
16 | 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 . |