Example sentences of "of himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There 's something wonderfully Renaissance about Norbrook 's depiction of himself as a glutton for poetry , cramming in as much as possible . |
| 32 | He did simmer down at times , enough to recognise his tendency to pour oil on the fire , and catch glimpses of himself as a ‘ half-strange , half-tiresome person . ’ |
| 33 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 34 | He had never thought of himself as a master of the understatement , but his message to Hayman was something of a gem . |
| 35 | Ybreska had never thought of himself as an agent , or a spy . |
| 36 | If ever I was asked what Nigel ‘ did ’ , I would reply that he was a designer , or sometimes I 'd say an inventor , but he always spoke of himself as an engineer . |
| 37 | The Eikon Basilike can now therefore be regarded as an important source for the King 's view of himself as a martyr.7 |
| 38 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
| 39 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 40 | His moral doubts about this are apparent in his description of himself as a ‘ voyeur ’ . |
| 41 | When giving interviews to the press Hauser liked to paint a picture of himself as the company 's father figure . |
| 42 | This admission to residential care restored some external order in John 's life , which in turn may have helped to re-establish a view of himself as someone capable of personal relations with others . |
| 43 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 44 | Not only did it concur with Constantine 's presentation of himself as Messiah . |
| 45 | It also concurred with his presentation of himself as a specifically warlike Messiah — a man who implemented God 's will with the sword and whose triumphs bore testimony to God 's favour . |
| 46 | The Roman Church of the time was quite prepared to concur with Constantine 's conception of himself as a genuine Messiah , and a more successful Messiah than Jesus . |
| 47 | All the same it is extraordinary to find the Roman Church ( 1 ) acquiescing in Constantine 's total indifference to Jesus ; ( 2 ) deferring to Constantine 's presentation of himself as the Messiah ; and ( 3 ) acknowledging the definition of Messiahship — that is , a military and political figure — embodied by Constantine . |
| 48 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 49 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 50 | One dealer wrote on his client lead card : " Likes to think of himself as a professional . |
| 51 | " The way in which learning to read is experienced by the child will determine how he will view learning in general , how he will conceive of himself as a person . " |
| 52 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 53 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 54 | He thought of himself as a bungler . |
| 55 | He was remanded in custody and remained in prison for six weeks , unwilling to be treated for his distressing voices and persecutory beliefs and unable to give a clear account of himself as a result of his jumbled thinking and speech . |
| 56 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 57 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 58 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 59 | Curran , never immune to criticism , thought of himself as ‘ a broadcasting manager ’ . |
| 60 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |