Sentence examples for win herself from inspiring English sources

His version makes it quite clear that both characters know that Nausikaa wants to wash her clothes in order to win herself a husband.

If Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi doesn't win herself — that is, if there are Election Day shenanigans like phony ballots, security thugs threatening voters or an opaque vote-counting process — it would not be unthinkable that riots might erupt nationwide.

To win herself a bit of freedom and a respite from her husband's sexual demands, Madame Wu finds him a second wife, an innocent country girl named Chiuming Yi Dingg).

A more punishing critique came from Hillary Clinton, Obama's former Secretary of State, who, hoping to win herself some distance from an unpopular President, told the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, "Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle".

She's won herself the right to do so.

She pointed out that neither did the man in question, winning herself the pay rise.

But Ms. Gould — who evidently won herself over at her own audition — looked and sounded ill at ease.

At Kassel, Cathérine David, a new-art specialist from Paris, has caused several rows even before the show's opening and won herself the nickname, "Saint Joan of the Storerooms".

Then she was Stella to Rachel Weisz's Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar (winning herself an Olivier).

Davenport won herself three break points in the sixth game and won the second of them with a muscle-rippling smash.

But Black Caviar must have won herself a large number of new fans through this display of toughness in unfavourable circumstances.