Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pn reflx] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'd rather you did n't think about yourself as anything in particular at the moment . |
| 2 | Children and young people are entitled to the same levels of respect , consultation and competent practice that we advocate for ourselves as professional workers . |
| 3 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 4 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 5 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 6 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 7 | He mockingly referred to himself as Sir Tone and said : ‘ My wife is much more thrilled about it than I am . |
| 8 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 9 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 10 | Founded in 1878 , the CBS was one of a network of societies which in those days provided not only private financial insurance against adversity but social fellowship in regional lodges , where members referred to themselves as " brothers " . |
| 11 | Prince and Starky also referred to themselves as the ‘ Two Anointed Ones ’ . |
| 12 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 13 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 14 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 15 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 16 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 17 | Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism . |
| 18 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 19 | The trainer also has the responsibility to convey to the trainees that they must not think of themselves as problem solvers , but only as facilitators . |
| 20 | Clearly , this standardised approach to search and retrieval is a major publishing limitation , all the more significant because Sony do not think of themselves as publishers and are seeking third parties to support their platform . |
| 21 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 22 | ‘ And in the back row , Tim Rodber and Ben Clarke can justifiably think of themselves as England candidates . ’ |
| 23 | Did you think of yourself as a classical actor in those days ? |
| 24 | Do you think of yourself as more of a rhythm guitarist than a lead player ? |
| 25 | ( How far do you really think of yourself as a housewife ? ) |
| 26 | When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do you think of yourself as a student ? ’ |
| 28 | Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist ? |
| 29 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 30 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |