Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] himself as [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The reigning world champion , who turned his back on Formula One after he was outmanoeuvred by Alain Prost last season , has established himself as runaway favourite to win the Indycar championship . |
2 | He would n't have described himself as landed gentry — or if he did it would be with irony . |
3 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
4 | Thompson was forced to reshuffle his side because of injuries , work commitments and one player missing the team bus and indeed the manager had to name himself as one of the substitutes . |
5 | Rome was , I suppose , the capital of the art world , but Rome was essentially an international place where many a Britisher was famous ; where Flaxman , for instance , had established himself as one of the most famous artists in the world . |