Example sentences of "[prep] herself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think is the most important aspect of herself a woman should preserve as she grows older ? |
| 2 | ‘ Each suburban wife , as she made the beds , shopped for groceries , ate peanut-butter sandwiches with her children , chauffeured Cubs and Brownies , lay beside her husband at night , was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question , ‘ Is this all ? ’ ’ |
| 3 | Donna wins for herself a Head Electra Master racket of stiff graphite construction in the head with slightly softer flex in the shaft . |
| 4 | By 1919 Japan had secured for herself a formal position as one of the world 's most powerful nations . |
| 5 | She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past . |
| 6 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 7 | Leila closed her eyes , visualising for herself the pleasant warmth of Ari 's fantasy world . |
| 8 | Behind her dark glasses , she constructed for herself the illusion of security . |
| 9 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 10 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 11 | Rose could never afford for herself the sort of supper her young man will provide for her , and she 's fly enough not to get herself dragged into an alley and done out of it . |
| 12 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 13 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 14 | " Look , " said Alice , feeling in herself the beginnings of an all too familiar weight and drag . |
| 15 | And then in rhythmic tones , half-speech , half-chant , she wrung from deep within herself a description of all-consuming love . |
| 16 | She went into the darkness of that experience , found within herself a healing power which she allied with alternative therapies and is now fully cured . |
| 17 | The Queen of the Night must understand these instincts , if she is to have control over them ; she must know her own wildness , and sense within herself the vigilance of the owl and the cunning of the fox before she can bring them into her domain . |
| 18 | So it was that by Thursday morning Charlotte could detect within herself an ebbing of urgency , a slide towards fatalism , a creeping acceptance that Samantha 's absence might be as permanent as Maurice 's . |
| 19 | Italy is of course the country where anything is possible , but legitimate concern has been expressed at the way in which the young Florentine judge has seen fit to take upon herself a role which properly belongs to the competent institutional authorities that of evaluating the appropriateness and the implementation of a particular restoration project . |
| 20 | Marianella lived under enormous pressure and sometimes imposed upon herself an almost overwhelming work schedule — two or three nights without sleep were not uncommon . |
| 21 | Minuchin 's description of the anorexic as one who takes upon herself the burden of familial conflicts and the internal conflicts of those around her indicates that the anorexic ‘ sees ’ what is going on within and among other people in a very special way . |
| 22 | It was he , after all , who was the master of the Art , and now that Louisa had taken upon herself the task of preparing his way he was freed from the immediate pressure of time . |
| 23 | She said the name to herself a few times , enjoying the feeling it created . |
| 24 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 25 | Rain had decided to keep that to herself a while longer . |
| 26 | She talked to herself a little , lowering her voice and drawling carefully . |
| 27 | She would keep to herself the colour of her days — white Mondays , bordered in yellow , mahogany-brown Sundays . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 29 | The intricate and ever-growing industrial co-operation of the civilised nations through trade does not permit any nation to keep to herself the gain of any market she may hold . |
| 30 | She had meant to be comforting , but even to herself the words sounded depressed . |