Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 3 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 4 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 5 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 6 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 7 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 8 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 9 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 10 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 11 | He fancied himself as a new Alexander and said he wanted to learn more about the Renaissance in the neighbouring country , so he invaded Italy . |
| 12 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 14 | He saw himself as a courtier only by profession and hated to find himself succumbing already to the sycophantic atmosphere of the Palace offices . |
| 15 | He saw himself as a great , strong animal who could always protect his girl . |
| 16 | He saw himself as a good Art teacher : |
| 17 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 18 | He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action . |
| 19 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 20 | He saw himself as the political leader of the Evangelicals , but in reality his views were too extreme and his style too combative for him to command general support . |
| 21 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 22 | For first he presents himself as a nice , serious , liberated person . |
| 23 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |