Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 2 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 3 | Can I propose yourself as the Chair of this Committee ? |
| 4 | This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ . |
| 5 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 6 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 7 | As when you act for a seller or mortgagor , add any other documents which suggest themselves as the matter proceeds . |
| 8 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |
| 9 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 10 | At a further press conference on Jan. 19 the opposition parties produced Maj. József Vegvari , an officer in the State Security Service who identified himself as the source of the leaked information , who alleged that reports compiled as a result of the surveillance operation had regularly been passed to senior HSP members and discussed at meetings of the Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | Sometimes people addressed letters mistakenly to Lady Muriel Selvedge , and on these occasions she imagined herself as the daughter of an earl , a marquess , or even a duke , comfortably unmarried . |
| 12 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 13 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 16 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 17 | You see yourself as the mysterious contessa in flowing black veil and wheelchair , delicate white hand with long red nails offered up for kissing . ) |
| 18 | Ranchers , who see themselves as the guardians of the west , say that grazing generates economic stability and feeds the nation . |
| 19 | And erm you know as lorry drivers , we we class ourselves as the professionals of the road , but at the end of the day our standards or our reputation is tarnished by the actions of a few is n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ We see ourself as the biggest club in Britain , with a stadium to match , and we feel we are among the top five clubs in Europe . |
| 21 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 22 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 23 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 24 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 25 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 26 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 27 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 28 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 29 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 30 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |