Example sentences of "[pers pn] considers [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a trustee of SCARF ( skin cancer research fund ) ; she considers herself one of the lucky ones , having had minor surgery herself . |
| 2 | Marie Thwaites has a sunny disposition , rarely stops smiling and has happy memories of her experiences as a hired hand , She considers herself one of the fortunate ones , although her innocent description of the daily regime she had to endure would be considered intolerable indeed cruel today . |
| 3 | Although she considers herself a practical , outgoing person more than an intellectual , she has always found literature a great mental enricher . |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever happened to part them , she considers herself so tainted that marriage is out of the question . ’ |
| 5 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 6 | If it feels pain , it considers itself to be under attack . |
| 7 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 8 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 9 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 10 | He considers himself the victim of a plot , regards the asylum as Hades , and refuses to accept that he is mad . |
| 11 | He considers himself an expert on the subject now and confirms that what Horatia says is entirely possible . " |
| 12 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 13 | The reasons he feels uneasy at the task he 's given himself , of pamphleteering , are first that he 's not he 's had to interrupt his studies and is not get learned enough for his poem , though you will have noticed he considers himself quite learned enough for ecclesiastical politics . |