Example sentences of "[vb -s] of himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 3 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 4 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 7 | He speaks of himself as a man who could have been a God . |
| 8 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 9 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |