Example sentences of "herself [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace switched on the spacewalk jets and launched herself through the widening yawn of the doors . |
| 2 | The doorbell pealed and Julia shot upstairs from the basement , flung herself through the green baize door and then walked slowly and decorously across the black and white tiled hall . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 5 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 8 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Orlan , 45 , is currently showing a video of her last operation as she tours Australia to display herself as a living work of art . |
| 11 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 12 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 13 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |
| 16 | Asserting herself as a conceptual artist , considering all her work as creative , whether working with other people or developing ideas for further projects , jane nevertheless sees spending time on to her people 's creativity as a Catch-22 situation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 19 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Describing herself as the unrepentant collector , Mrs. Vernon Smith showed a variety of garments and artefacts . |
| 25 | This interviewer sees himself or herself as the natural successor to Sir Robin Day . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 28 | She saw herself as an unlikeable person . |
| 29 | The gains would far outweigh the losses , provided Britain made full use of all her bargaining strength , and offered herself as an equal partner and not as a beggar . |
| 30 | 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 . |