Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 2 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 3 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 4 | The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured . |
| 5 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 6 | Since then the Kettering accountant has established himself as the British No 1 and holds four national road race records . |
| 7 | By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football . |
| 8 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |
| 9 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 10 | Not only had he transformed the political situation among the western Saxons but he had also established himself as the most powerful ruler in southern England . |
| 11 | Bath 's Ben Clarke has so far established himself as the pick of the British Lions touring squad in New Zealand |