Example sentences of "describe himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shopkeeper from a slave line might describe himself as a free Zuwayi without incongruity ; but other people would usually call him abd , a black with an enslaved grandparent somewhere in his line . |
| 2 | Hamad Hasan did not describe himself as a free Zuwayi , but his ventures into gardening and trade , and his use of his agricultural knowledge and skills , were characteristic activities of free men . |
| 3 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 4 | He wondered whether Major Harvey , ex-Green Jackets , Wellington and Sandhurst and Ulster undercover expert , would describe himself as Irish . |
| 5 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 6 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |
| 7 | He , I suppose , would describe himself as a chauffeur-handyman . |
| 8 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 10 | Unfortunately , anyone can describe himself or herself as a homoeopath . |
| 11 | Until the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , only a registered patent agent or a solicitor could act for gain as agents for persons seeking patents , but now anyone can do this as long as he does not describe himself as , or hold himself out to be , a " patent agent " or " patent attorney " . |
| 12 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 13 | In her living room she took the bundle of replies to her ad in the New Statesman , settled at her desk and wrote to Michael who was an architect and described himself as outgoing . |
| 14 | Plainly the man who wrote this was the man who in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley took as his model and master Gautier , who described himself proudly as a man ‘ pour qui le monde visible existe ’ . |
| 15 | He described himself and his colleagues as facilitators who would try to help create the climate for negotiations . |
| 16 | The peer , who is suing over allegations that he is a war criminal , described himself as a ‘ human being and a good Christian ’ . |
| 17 | Dyson , besides , though unpublished and ‘ a don at Reading ’ ( as he always half-ironically described himself ) rather than at Oxford , was more a man of the world than either Tolkien or Lewis . |
| 18 | Another backbencher , Sir Anthony Meyer , described himself as ‘ a burnt offering ’ who might stand against Mrs Thatcher if no one else would . |
| 19 | Roberts described himself as ‘ the enfant terrible of British ufology . |
| 20 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 21 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 22 | In the same speech , he described himself as ‘ something of a ‘ cheekie laddie ’ and of dubious value to the army ’ in the spring of 1941 . |
| 23 | Luff described himself as ‘ something of a visionary ’ , and during a talk in 1940 indulged in some Wellsian flights of fancy , producing drawings of a tram whose driver 's cab was on the roof giving passengers a clear view forward , and a bus which had folded wings ! |
| 24 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 25 | Perhaps conflict between parents and foster parents , or religious dilemma ( coming from an orthodox background , Salomon described himself as ‘ only liberal ’ ) , contributed — the records give little indication . |
| 26 | No wonder , then , that the poet described himself as ‘ a wanderer ’ , supporting the literal sense of the next poem 's conclusion . |
| 27 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 28 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 29 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 30 | As Tyndale described himself in a letter to his disciple Frith , ‘ God hath made me ill favoured in this world , and without grace in the sight of men , speechless and rude , dull and ill witted . ’ |