Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 3 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 10 | He imagined himself as an officer , in command of Valence and Tundrish . |
| 11 | He fancies himself as a gutter poet and artist . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , Joe , er , Mark Little has upped and left Oz in favour of England — after touring this country with his one-man show ( he fancies himself as a bit of a new age traveller ) , he wants to settle down in near Manchester . |
| 13 | His own company had been paid his freelance fee by the BBC and he was taxed on what he paid himself as a salary from the company 's turnover . |
| 14 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 15 | He sees himself as a protector . |
| 16 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 17 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 18 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 19 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 20 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 21 | He fancied himself as a strategist . |
| 22 | Though born in Britain , he regards himself as a citizen of Europe and Italy as his adopted home . |
| 23 | Nothing is known of Hotham 's early years , but at some time he established himself as a hatter and hosier in Serle Street , Lincoln 's Inn , London , and later ( c .1752 ) in the Strand , advertising his wares by circulating copper tokens in London and the provinces . |
| 24 | He saw himself as a child , running towards someone . |
| 25 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 26 | He saw himself as a man who fell in love , not one who had affairs . |
| 27 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 28 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 29 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 30 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |