Example sentences of "[prep] herself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 2 | Jay had a horror of moths flying into her face and hair ; she liked to think of herself as someone who cups her hands for moths and spiders and frees them . |
| 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 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 5 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 6 | Her mummy had once shown her photographs of herself as a Brownie many years ago , and Angela had laughed at the funny straw hat and long frock she had worn . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Miss Jarman 's rasping voice cut through Jess 's picture of herself as a fairground tumbler and she repeated her story in a flat monotone , conscious of a depressing conviction that the more often she told it , the more tangled she was becoming in this battle that was all about other people 's money and injured pride . |
| 9 | Chasseguet-Smirgel ( 1985 ) suggests that a woman 's ego-ideal is constructed first by identification with the mother , and only then by a redefinition of herself as the father 's wife . |
| 10 | The USSR 's commitment to Communism 's expansion and triumph seems to co-exist with a psychology of threat and a view of herself as victim . |
| 11 | What she is describing are characteristics of herself as a person , qualities of her own individual personality . |
| 12 | To see yourself in this way is a representation of the child 's move into historical time , one of the places where vision establishes the child 's understanding of herself as part of the world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 17 | MIND OVER MATTER : A hijra thinks of herself as a woman |
| 18 | She wished she felt as sure of herself as the man so casually lounging opposite her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Maybe Angy gave her the sketch of herself as a present ? ’ |
| 21 | Up to that time , I do not believe that she had thought of herself as a candidate for the Leadership . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 24 | It 's as if she is conducting an experiment , with herself as one of the ingredients . |
| 25 | In 1972 , the cult of his personality began to take off , and his wife , Elena , was suddenly prominently at his side on big occasions , staking out a role for herself as a formidable political force . |
| 26 | She has built a reputation for herself as a specialist in the area and is not involved as photographic director for Al-Wasat , a magazine based in London , which is launched this month for distribution throughout the Arab world . |
| 27 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But she 's now making another name for herself as the brains behind the first horse register in the country . |
| 30 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |