Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] himself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 2 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 3 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One dealer wrote on his client lead card : " Likes to think of himself as a professional . |
| 6 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 7 | He is the last person to be entitled to think of himself as a protector of jobs ; he is the destroyer of jobs . |
| 8 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 9 | I think the first point to make is erm that schools , and particularly community colleges , are now very complicated places , and it would be quite wrong for a head of an establishment like that to think of himself as an academic in an ivory tower , because if he did erm the organisation would become entangled , the money would run out , and in fact he would n't have the kind of institution he wants . |