Example sentences of "see himself [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He sees himself more as a poet , his mind receptive to many ideas and influences , some visual , some musical , some literary , which he amalgamates into his work in a similar way to Proust writing A La Research du Temps Perdu . |
2 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
3 | ‘ He sees himself more as your friend than your doctor , ’ explained Beuno . |
4 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
5 | He saw himself more in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the designer who can turn his hand to anything . |
6 | At the end of the poem Coleridge see himself almost as a shamanic figure who has returned from a prophetic trance , someone whose duty is to spread ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ . |
7 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |