Example sentences of "[verb] of himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 3 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 4 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 5 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 6 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 7 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 8 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 9 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 10 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 11 | He had never thought of himself as a master of the understatement , but his message to Hayman was something of a gem . |
| 12 | Ybreska had never thought of himself as an agent , or a spy . |
| 13 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 14 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 17 | " The way in which learning to read is experienced by the child will determine how he will view learning in general , how he will conceive of himself as a person . " |
| 18 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 19 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 20 | He thought of himself as a latecomer . |
| 21 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 22 | He thought of himself as a bungler . |
| 23 | Curran , never immune to criticism , thought of himself as ‘ a broadcasting manager ’ . |
| 24 | Felix , who always thought of himself as a bit of a lad and an all-round popular fellow , took it in good part . |
| 25 | 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 . " |
| 26 | He thought of himself as a responsible and dependable person . |
| 27 | He actually dreamed of himself in a suit of armour opening the big , oak front door with a mace in his hand and Adam riding up on a black , colourfully caparisoned horse . |
| 28 | He speaks of himself as a man who could have been a God . |
| 29 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 30 | When he spoke of himself with evident authority as ‘ the senior Vietnam veteran on active duty ’ you could read the subtext as if it was in neon : if I am prepared to give my commander-in-chief unquestioned respect , so should you . |