Example sentences of "of himself [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 2 | The Roman Church of the time was quite prepared to concur with Constantine 's conception of himself as a genuine Messiah , and a more successful Messiah than Jesus . |
| 3 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 4 | He thought of himself as a great collector — I believe there were great collections of Chinese porcelain made by Victorian and Edwardian connoisseurs , but he was pretty small fry , just being fashionable . " |
| 5 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 6 | This dual heritage sharpened the sense of himself as a fused centre between the dream world of a long-vanished civilization and the natural world he observed scientifically . |
| 7 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 8 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |