Example sentences of "think [prep] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 2 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 3 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 6 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 7 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 8 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 9 | He had never thought of himself as a master of the understatement , but his message to Hayman was something of a gem . |
| 10 | Ybreska had never thought of himself as an agent , or a spy . |
| 11 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 12 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 13 | He thought of himself as a latecomer . |
| 14 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 15 | He thought of himself as a bungler . |
| 16 | Curran , never immune to criticism , thought of himself as ‘ a broadcasting manager ’ . |
| 17 | Felix , who always thought of himself as a bit of a lad and an all-round popular fellow , took it in good part . |
| 18 | He thought of himself as a great collector — I believe there were great collections of Chinese porcelain made by Victorian and Edwardian connoisseurs , but he was pretty small fry , just being fashionable . " |
| 19 | He thought of himself as a responsible and dependable person . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One dealer wrote on his client lead card : " Likes to think of himself as a professional . |
| 24 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 25 | He is the last person to be entitled to think of himself as a protector of jobs ; he is the destroyer of jobs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 29 | He had to start thinking of himself as a winner again . |