Example sentences of "he [verb] himself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To coincide with this , he relaunched himself as Revd Fr. |
| 2 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 3 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 4 | There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine . |
| 5 | God moved in mysterious ways — to Richie he manifested himself as an extremely successful car salesman . |
| 6 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 7 | He regarded himself as ‘ a bit of an antiquarian ’ but excavation was beyond his experience , so he called in John Barber , Classics Master at Oakham School who had dug in Greece with the British School at Athens . |
| 8 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 9 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 12 | He described himself as ‘ a young man of pure British descent , some of whose forefathers have held high positions in the British army . |
| 13 | In 1681 he described himself as ‘ gardener to her Majestie ’ , probably Henrietta Maria [ q.v. ] , the dowager queen , at Somerset House , before she left England in 1665 , rather than Catherine of Braganza , Charles II 's consort , who is not recorded as sharing her mother-in-law 's interest in gardening . |
| 14 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 15 | In works of reference he described himself as ‘ painter and zoologist ’ . |
| 16 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 17 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 18 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 19 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 20 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 21 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 22 | He describes himself as a ‘ career manager ’ and has extensive experience of hotels . |
| 23 | He describes himself as a ‘ false witness ’ to his times in that he chooses to depict , for the most part , scenes of unexpected joy and pleasure in the midst of lives which might , at first sight , appear bleak and colourless . |
| 24 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 25 | In conversation this is a rare moment of levity , as he describes himself as ‘ a bit of a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 26 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 27 | Today he describes himself as ‘ an active pensioner ’ — and , indeed , is very sprightly both in mind and body . |
| 28 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 29 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 30 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |