Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [pn reflx] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 2 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 3 | Chasseguet-Smirgel ( 1985 ) suggests that a woman 's ego-ideal is constructed first by identification with the mother , and only then by a redefinition of herself as the father 's wife . |
| 4 | When giving interviews to the press Hauser liked to paint a picture of himself as the company 's father figure . |
| 5 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 6 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 7 | By fostering an image of himself as the inheritor of Charlemagne 's empire , he did much to create that image of Charlemagne which dominated the later middle ages . |
| 8 | Over the past eight years , Conservative ministers have projected an image of themselves as the party of the family . |