Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] herself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 2 | She was able to talk about herself in a more positive way , and this she attributed to having felt useful and capable when helping her sister-in-law around the house . |
| 3 | She refused to look upon herself as an invalid , but it might be sensible to take a tonic , say , during the coming winter months , and to catch up with the loss of sleep she had so cheerfully endured . |
| 4 | This woman also had a passion to visit Russia , and she seemed to look on herself as a sort of tramp reformer . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 6 | The therapist encouraged her to look at herself in a more realistic way , and particularly to try to identify her good points and qualities . |
| 7 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 8 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 9 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's too young to understand , ’ was often the reply , but I did n't want her to think of herself as an object of attention . |
| 11 | Mary-Claude 's pregnancy had been troublesome from the start , even without the stress of a month 's separation and having to cope by herself with the move back from Cyprus , and Coleman was exhausted from a gruelling month of detailed debriefings by a stream of DIA officers and analysts at an assortment of Ramada Inns in the Baltimore/Washington area . |
| 12 | Everything she had tried to achieve for herself during the last four years would have to be tossed away , useless . |
| 13 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 14 | 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 . |