Example sentences of "woman [verb] herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sound more like a furry animal in pain than a big white woman enjoying herself . |
| 2 | A WOMAN flung herself at a mugger and bit off his right ear when he snatched her bag in Milan . |
| 3 | It is as if by doing so a woman offers herself , ritually cleansed , to be entirely controlled by her husband . |
| 4 | ‘ … we do get a few complaints — generally from male tourists whose culture is much more restrictive than ours , and who have mistakenly assumed that when a young woman displays herself naked on a beach she is inviting their carnal attentions . |
| 5 | The miniature woman seated herself on Murphy 's left foot . |
| 6 | As she stood there in the vestibule , in front of the carved names of Cambridge School 's distinguished pupils , all the Dorothys and Joans and Ediths and Hildas , the glass-panelled front door opened and an old woman let herself in . |
| 7 | The woman busied herself in the kitchen and produced a plate piled high like a cairn with potatoes , and a huge pot of tea , and then resumed her knitting by the fire opposite her husband . |
| 8 | More perplexing is the fact that although she gets all her work from one firm and has no control over the quantity , this woman describes herself as ‘ self-employed ’ . |
| 9 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 10 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 11 | At the door the old woman shook herself free . |
| 12 | ‘ Would n't you be flattered if a beautiful woman threw herself at you ? ’ |
| 13 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |
| 14 | She describes the circumstances in which she chose to focus on these tales : ‘ hearing a black woman describe herself as a daughter of Hagar outside the covenant ; … reading news reports of the dismembered body of a woman found in a trash can ’ . |
| 15 | Leapor sees such a woman degrading herself as a miser : |
| 16 | It looked like a drunken woman supporting herself against a building in the street . |
| 17 | Of all that she had learned that afternoon , the only possible hope lay in trying to establish the real identity of the woman calling herself Delia Forbes . |
| 18 | The dictates of self-preservation often ensured that the respectable young working woman dissociated herself from the known prostitute , since association with prostitutes rendered a woman 's character suspect to the police and could lead to her name being placed on the registration list . |
| 19 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |
| 20 | When the other woman folded herself into the delicate embrace , she was shocked at how thin her friend had become . |
| 21 | It was ajar and he could see the young woman busying herself with chores before reopening the shop for the afternoon trade . |
| 22 | The emphasis on the moral strength and spirituality of women was a central strand in the social purity campaigns of the late nineteenth century ; and it was only the maternal instincts which allowed a woman to subject herself to what was conceived of as the almost ungovernable lust of men . |
| 23 | One woman advertised herself as Madam Homa , an imaginative name . |
| 24 | Alan Millet stood with his back to the fire , feeling his inadequacy and waited for the woman to settle herself . |
| 25 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 26 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 27 | Very shyly , the woman introduced herself as Georgette Aboud . |
| 28 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
| 29 | The pure , now flaming , now icy colours of this painter , reveal the woman polarising herself , accepting fully the nature long denied , spiritualising her sex . |
| 30 | … the elderly woman adapts herself to her stage better than her husband . |