11.   If you ignored the shadows beneath her eyes and the paleness of her complexion, she looked like her old self again.

12.   And at the other corner, Kevin Smith was praised for his courage, but described as a mere shadow of his old self.

13.   And gradually she returned to her old self.

14.   And then there was Caminiti, stopping a bad skid from the left side of the plate and looking like his old self.

15.   Better than his old self.

16.   Both parties played their old selves.

17.   A New York banker told me that television pictures of unimpeded freeway traffic convinced him more than any government statistic that Southern California was back to its old self.

18.   A night after having their perfect season blemished in Miami, the Lakers looked and sounded like their old selves again.

19.   A. Living up to my old self has been very tough.

20.   After five days in the hospital receiving intravenous fluids and weeks of antibiotics, she is her old self again.