Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 2 | Ludens was a historian , but certainly did not regard himself as a Jewish historian . |
| 3 | An hotel-keeper become bankrupt , the yearly lease terminated and the trustee did not offer himself as a tenant , and the bankrupt 's wife became tenant . |
| 4 | Hamad Hasan did not describe himself as a free Zuwayi , but his ventures into gardening and trade , and his use of his agricultural knowledge and skills , were characteristic activities of free men . |
| 5 | I do not regard myself as a Euro-sceptic . |
| 6 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 7 | However , they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design . |
| 8 | Her tone was educated , mocking : she did n't see herself as a servant because she was n't one . |
| 9 | She had lived her twenty-two years surrounded by life 's little luxuries , all the wonderful comforts that money could buy , and she did n't see herself as the sort of healthy , hardy girl who could endure too many minor inconveniences with a cheery smile . |
| 10 | Mr Hardcastle : ‘ But they do n't regard themselves as a sectarian group either ? ’ |
| 11 | I do n't see myself as a pop artist . |
| 12 | Since nuclear power stations are no longer the easiest route to nuclear weapons , I do n't see myself as a double-headed monster . |
| 13 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 14 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Christine Brooke-Rose does not classify herself as a feminist . |
| 16 | Robin Smith does not regard himself as an automatic selection for this summer 's campaign against Pakistan , despite winning the Cornhill player of the year award . |
| 17 | Some months later , they relented , thought twice , listened to some extra argument about how every jury is skewed in that two or three of its number are not over 65 , and , as such , does not express itself as a cross-section of the populace . |
| 18 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 19 | Scotland 's record-breaking captain does not see himself as a future Scottish Rugby Union president . |
| 20 | A prison source told TODAY last night : ‘ Courtney does not see himself as a sex offender so he has not applied for Category C status . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 22 | After seeing the professionals at work , Colin ( 7 ) from Duke Street , Leith , does n't see himself as a presenter — because of the lights . |