Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 2 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 3 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 4 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 5 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 6 | Shirley Eaton looked fetching in her nurse 's uniform and a young probationer nurse was laying the tracks for a totally new profession for herself as the overemotional wallflower among the blossoming beauties of the hospital . |
| 7 | The fact that Tassi was already married only exacerbated Aratsio 's belief in himself as the aggrieved party . |
| 8 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 9 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 10 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 11 | But over that weekend , diesels did not have it all to themselves as the unique two coach Battery Electric Multiple Unit was diagrammed for three return trips . |
| 12 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |