Example sentences of "[v-ing] herself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | MRS BODY 'S mother-in-law , otherwise known as Tracey 's Gran , dies in the middle of Neighbours , revealing herself as a woman of sensibility . |
| 2 | Eleanor , disguising herself as a man , attempted to join them , but was captured and spent the rest of Henry II 's reign in prison . |
| 3 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 4 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 5 | She had nothing else quite so effective to wear for the other two acts , but this , for her first entrance , for establishing herself as Countess Maritza , did absolutely everything . |
| 6 | Virginia Woolf , in her Bloomsbury circle , could hardly have been closer to the metropolitan heart of England , yet she , too , found a foreignness within it , deliberately defining herself as an alien . |
| 7 | One woman , describing herself as a ‘ member of an endangered species — the miner 's wife ’ , movingly portrayed the material and spiritual desolation that pit closures had brought to the South Wales valleys . |
| 8 | Describing herself as the unrepentant collector , Mrs. Vernon Smith showed a variety of garments and artefacts . |
| 9 | Billing herself as the spirit of Patsy Cline , she ( and her band the Reclines ) cut the album that established her country claim . |
| 10 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 13 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 14 | In March 1918 Nina Boyle , offering herself as a test case , announced that she would stand in the Keighley by-election . |