Example sentences of "[pn reflx] as the [noun sg] " 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 ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel .
3 The other is ourselves as the stranger .
4 He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order .
5 He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier .
6 This is a film trailer , she thought , and at any moment he is going to turn around and reveal himself as the hero , the hunted spy or the detective .
7 ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe .
8 Mosley came increasingly to see himself as the spokesman of the war generation , who refused to compromise his idealistic principles with the political realities of the post-war world .
9 A greasy tub of lard with filthy hair and a red , unshaven face introduced himself as the keeper and became almost fawning when Benjamin informed him who he was .
10 Well can one imagine Knobelsdorf , swept along by ambition , seeing himself as the organiser of victory at Verdun , exalted to become the Ludendorff of the Western Front .
11 Old Donald chuckled in himself as the scene in the road came over him again .
12 The itinerary included parts of Czechoslovakia and Austria and a day trip into Hungary , with Martin Randall himself as the lecturer .
13 Mr Kinnock presenting himself as the country 's next Prime Minister , won a standing ovation at his Party Conference at Blackpool .
14 He could tell endless tales , normally with himself as the butt .
15 The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured .
16 MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism .
17 All the same it is extraordinary to find the Roman Church ( 1 ) acquiescing in Constantine 's total indifference to Jesus ; ( 2 ) deferring to Constantine 's presentation of himself as the Messiah ; and ( 3 ) acknowledging the definition of Messiahship — that is , a military and political figure — embodied by Constantine .
18 When giving interviews to the press Hauser liked to paint a picture of himself as the company 's father figure .
19 Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge .
20 It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity .
21 And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places .
22 Mandeville , who saw himself as the King 's own commissioner and therefore self-appointed leader , shouted orders ; the great gates swung open , and he led us out .
23 It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales .
24 Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador .
25 Democratic optimists say Clinton will now shift gears , promoting himself as the candidate of energy and change against Bush 's stuck-in-the-mud , colourlessly pragmatic , status quo conservatism .
26 Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore .
27 Unsurprisingly , the court has held that a person charged with making an appointment can not validly appoint himself as the expert : Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 .
28 In the end the partner bought at a knock-down price , without naming himself as the buyer until the offer had been accepted .
29 He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 .
30 But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) .
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