Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 2 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 3 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 4 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 5 | In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman . |
| 6 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 7 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 8 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 9 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 10 | Arkwright Myers , a fifty-year-old fitness freak , introduces himself as the owner . |
| 11 | In career terms , Sir Patrick regards himself as the ‘ freak ’ of the Wright family . |
| 12 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 13 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 14 | This fantasy is shattered when Magwitch suddenly re-enters his life and announces himself as the mysterious benefactor . |
| 15 | In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries . |