Example sentences of "herself [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Orlan , 45 , is currently showing a video of her last operation as she tours Australia to display herself as a living work of art . |
| 9 | If they are still there , she added to herself as a dark afterthought . |
| 10 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 11 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The 50-year-old Swede , who has starred in more than 30 movies , will play herself during a week-long guest appearance over Christmas . |
| 22 | Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s . |
| 23 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 24 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
| 25 | Claudia Yeo nerved herself for a final effort . |
| 26 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 27 | • 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 . |
| 28 | The auburn-haired equestrienne delivered herself of a pithy speech , gave the young man , now scarlet beneath his whiskers , no chance to reply , put out a hand and thrust him physically aside with such force that he staggered back and bounced off the door of Woolworth 's behind him , and strode on . |
| 29 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 30 | She sounded to herself like a working-class heroine of a '50s black-and-white film , one of those who suddenly , to the bafflement of steady spouses sometimes played by people like Max Bygraves , and to the consternation of concerned mothers , frantically and uncontrollably asserts her rights . |