Example sentences of "[to-vb] herself [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 2 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 3 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 4 | The Commissioner herself was sensitive to this perception , and was keen , right from the start , to establish herself as an independent and neutral body . |
| 5 | This left Lady Arran free to fortify herself with a large tot of rum . |
| 6 | Crushed ambitions and women 's lib feelings had rallied to the author 's right to identify herself with a polished ship . |
| 7 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 8 | Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the epistolatory novel by Choderlos de Laclos about sexual gamesmanship among the French aristocracy in the closing decades of the ancient regime , DANGEROUS LIAISONS revolves around the schemes of the malicious , intelligent salon hostess Madame de Merteuil ( Glenn Close ) to revenge herself on a fallen lover by arranging the seduction of his virgin bride . |
| 9 | A seventeen year old , bright and intelligent enough to put herself on an equal footing with her father . |
| 10 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 11 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
| 12 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 13 | With a slight change of posture — a lift of the head , a straightening of the already straight back , that little proud look — she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind . |
| 14 | Josie reflected on how easily , with just a change of clothes and a few amateur touches , Lucy had managed to transform herself into a resurrected image of her own sister . |
| 15 | As Bill has sharpened his image to match his growing political fortunes , so Hillary cast aside her intellectual reserve to transform herself from a dowdy schoolma'am type in heavy glasses to a glamorous , designer-dressed head-turner who would grace any State function . |
| 16 | Her expert fingers fumbled clumsily at his fly , as she wanted to present herself as a nervous , but willing , maiden . |
| 17 | Orlan , 45 , is currently showing a video of her last operation as she tours Australia to display herself as a living work of art . |
| 18 | She has yet to prove herself on a large stage . |
| 19 | But so much of her attention was now centred on her own immediate steps that she had no leisure to orientate herself in a wider field . |