Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pn reflx] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 2 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 3 | Today he describes himself as ‘ an active pensioner ’ — and , indeed , is very sprightly both in mind and body . |
| 4 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 5 | There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine . |
| 6 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |
| 7 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 8 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 9 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |