Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in addition , since the writer disassociates herself and most ‘ caring and considerate people ’ from the people who caused Zahira 's experiences , it suggests that nothing need be done to change the set-up which resulted in her tragic experience , that citizens whose government is racist and oppressive are in no way responsible for its policies . |
| 2 | In the past she has often been the butt of uncomplimentary remarks herself but this time it is not her performance which should be belittled . |
| 3 | As her name indicates , Serena prides herself on being under control . |
| 4 | Mummy blames herself for what happened . |
| 5 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 6 | Susanna pulls herself together . |
| 7 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |
| 8 | VISIONS of Ecstasy , the 20-minute video in which St Theresa of Avila imagines herself touching Christ , neither reviled Jesus nor cast aspersions on him , the Board of Film Censors heard yesterday . |
| 9 | 1360 The Ottilia of Talabecland declares herself Empress . |
| 10 | Anya permits herself a triumphant smirk as she passes the mirror ; Rainbow seems to have forgotten my existence . |
| 11 | Except sometimes … ’ his eyes glittered strangely ‘ … sometimes the ice-maiden forgets herself , and turns to flame in my arms . |
| 12 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 13 | A cup of tea may be her usual tipple , but on such a special day , Nancy allows herself a drop of something a little bit stronger . |
| 14 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 15 | Eventually this dear girl gets herself off the cash desk right and where does she find them ? |
| 16 | Payne , 30 , began the hate campaign after receiving pest calls herself , and wrongly blaming the Todds . |
| 17 | The campaign to save a local arts centre starts innocently enough , but soon becomes the target for intimidation , and Jane finds herself in increasing danger as she uncovers layers of corruption that spread from an Oxford college to the Houses of Parliament . |
| 18 | Insofar as Leapor presents herself as genuinely ugly , she has a chance to confound the gentleman 's expectation that a gifted writer will also have a charming appearance . |
| 19 | I do n't think you really need to approach it that way ; I think deep down every girl knows herself how serious her own problem is . |
| 20 | A 16-year-old girl works herself into a frenzy of grief for a friend killed by right-wing vigilantes . |
| 21 | So Florence licenses herself and Florence herself and no one licenses anyone in anyone . |
| 22 | ‘ Does n't it disgust you to be lying around at home while your child works herself into an early grave ? ’ |
| 23 | In relation to both Willy and Herodotus , Mira sees herself falling into the role of Cassandra who was cursed by Apollo to have her prophecies ignored because she had refused to yield to his desire . |
| 24 | ‘ Julia sees herself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty , but in fact she 's the one who went and did the directing and had a hit with her first show . |
| 25 | In turn , the teacher keeps herself up to date and maintains an active interest in motivating and guiding the learner . |
| 26 | Arriving home , Goneril pronounces herself his mistress , and promises him speedy advancement — which can only mean by the murder of her husband , Albany ( IV.ii.17ff . ) . |
| 27 | This is how nature makes herself audible ( 364 ) . |
| 28 | Jordanova goes on to describe the statue in the Paris medical faculty , which shows a young woman , with bare breasts , head bowed , in the process of removing her veil : it is called ‘ Nature unveils herself before Science ’ . |
| 29 | Unger depicts herself and others working in the psychology of women , as caught up in ‘ facho ’ , a feminist version of macho ( Arpad 1986 : 208 ) , which in their case took the form of an obsession with productivity much like that found in the mainstream : ‘ like the characters in Through The Looking Glass we are all running ( and writing ) as fast as we can to keep up ’ ( 1979 : vii ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Beryl calls herself my stand-in mum . ’ |