Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 2 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 3 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 4 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 5 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 6 | No doubt his personal friendship with Wyatt , which was sustained throughout the work , helped , but Scott , with some justification , seemed to regard himself as the senior partner . |
| 7 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 9 | Bracing the lamp with his foot , he jerked the flex out and then had to steady himself as the unstable ground beneath him shifted . |
| 10 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 11 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 12 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 13 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 14 | By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football . |
| 15 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 16 | By 1959 , it had established itself as the pop sound and a fledgling British rock culture was throwing up performers such as Cliff Richard as challengers to Elvis . |
| 17 | Since its foundation in 1961 , the NDP had established itself as the most successful social democratic party in north America , and as Canada 's third main party at federal level . |
| 18 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |