Example sentences of "woman who [verb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie was a spotlessly clean woman who prided herself on her housekeeping . |
| 2 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 3 | like the old woman who crosses herself as the hearse moves on . |
| 4 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 5 | Many a woman who considers herself kind , compassionate and unselfish has been horrified to catch a glimpse of something underlying that , something which is determined to catch and hold a person , which can be jealous and possessive and cares nothing at all for the claims of others . |
| 6 | The ‘ angel ’ in question was an American woman who calls herself Rytasha . |
| 7 | ‘ I have come here ready to prove that he is married , and the woman who calls herself his sister is really his wife , ’ said Holmes . |
| 8 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 9 | A woman who valued herself more could have said , ‘ Well , now I 'll have time to do other things ’ , but for this woman life without the sense of being needed and of other people valuing her had no point . |
| 10 | She was the kind of woman who convinced herself that she liked all the rich smells associated with men . |
| 11 | How would he have felt , he sometimes asked himself , if he had married a woman who set herself against his ethnic origins ? |
| 12 | ‘ I have no interest in a woman who prefers herself to anyone else . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 14 | It is very important to go to the mikva on time , and the woman who puts herself out and goes to the mikva even when it is not convenient to go , is commended by the rabbis in Jewish literature . |
| 15 | Once a woman who called herself Mr Bottomley 's secretary , rang " on his behalf . " |
| 16 | Anyway poor Ophelia emerges as a tragic woman who drowns herself in a river , flowers in her hand , hair spread out like a veil around her . |
| 17 | Cleopatra 's gradual development , from scheming flirt to a woman who finds herself deeply in love , lies at the very heart of the opera . |
| 18 | A French film maker , François Margolin , has produced a new film , ‘ Mensonges ’ ( ‘ Lies ’ ) , in which Nathalie Baye plays a woman who finds herself pregnant and also seropositive for AIDS — because her lover , played by Didier Sandre , had concealed a homosexual affair . |
| 19 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |