Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 2 | The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business . |
| 3 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 4 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 5 | Pollock found himself as a painter during the 1940s . |
| 6 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 7 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 8 | A shopkeeper from a slave line might describe himself as a free Zuwayi without incongruity ; but other people would usually call him abd , a black with an enslaved grandparent somewhere in his line . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |
| 11 | He , I suppose , would describe himself as a chauffeur-handyman . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 14 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 17 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 18 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 19 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 20 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
| 22 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 23 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 24 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 25 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 26 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 27 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 30 | There was also Captain Hawes , another ex-serviceman , who was finally executed for robberies on the moor ; Whitney , the butcher , who was feared for his savagery and barbarism ; Captain Stafford , a Londoner who found fame on the moor , and Thomas Simpson ( Old Mob ) who , although hideously ugly , managed to evade capture regularly by disguising himself as a woman . |