Example sentences of "[noun prp] describe himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberts described himself as ‘ the enfant terrible of British ufology . |
| 2 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 3 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 4 | Warhurst described himself with a grin as ‘ versatile ’ and went on to say : ‘ I know Rovers have three top quality strikers in Alan Shearer , Mike Newell and Kevin Gallacher . |
| 5 | As Tyndale described himself in a letter to his disciple Frith , ‘ God hath made me ill favoured in this world , and without grace in the sight of men , speechless and rude , dull and ill witted . ’ |
| 6 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 7 | W. T. Stead described himself as ‘ a child of the revival of 1859–60 ’ which had swept across the Atlantic and won hundreds of thousands of converts ( over a hundred thousand in Ulster alone ) . |