Example sentences of "[was/were] herself a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was herself a weaver and spinner and taught spinning and embroidery . |
| 2 | She had heard about Donna Frizzell 's frightful taste in literature , and , though she was herself a member of the Society for the Preservation of Morals and knew why the books had been purchased , she saw no reason to save her neighbour any humiliation , and had expressed suitably shocked surprise . |
| 3 | A sexual bud or ovum has started life , he supposes , as a bud from the mother when she was herself a newly fertilized egg in her mother , the grandmother . |
| 4 | Helen Wilson , daughter of the repeal campaigner and editor of The Shield , was herself a trained doctor , as was the purist and eugenist , Mary Scharlieb . |
| 5 | The stories of Manjiku she had heard on the island , when she was herself a girl , had not had happy endings : Manjiku continued to raid the inland waters for women , his hunger was not to be appeased , his need to have babies of his own still raged . |
| 6 | Moreover , the nature of the evidence adduced and the tone of the argument shifted over time , serving to justify the changing nature of sexual divisions in society ( the ‘ typewriter girl ’ was herself a product of changes in the occupational distribution of women workers ) . |
| 7 | She was herself a cripple , constantly in need of the sort of attention her husband had regularly given her in the evenings . |