Example sentences of "of himself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 2 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 3 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 4 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 5 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 6 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 7 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 8 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 9 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 10 | This dual heritage sharpened the sense of himself as a fused centre between the dream world of a long-vanished civilization and the natural world he observed scientifically . |
| 11 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 12 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 13 | By fostering an image of himself as the inheritor of Charlemagne 's empire , he did much to create that image of Charlemagne which dominated the later middle ages . |
| 14 | In both living and in dramatic playing a participant is continually accommodating to an image of himself as an object in order to communicate with others . |
| 15 | Woodhouse retained a sense of himself as a shoemaker long after he had gone into the book trade : the title of his most important work ‘ The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus ’ ( c. 1795 ) is an allusion to one of the patron saints of cobblers . |
| 16 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 17 | He had even allowed himself to be irritated by Patrick 's impudent image of himself as Marcus 's dog . |
| 18 | He thought of himself as a latecomer . |
| 19 | He had to start thinking of himself as a winner again . |
| 20 | They are rooted in Papert 's definition of himself as an ‘ educational utopian ’ . |
| 21 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 22 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 23 | Some of Peckinpah 's behaviour arose from his view of himself as a victim of the movie industry , because as much violence had been done to Major Dundee ( 1965 ) and The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ) as to the characters in them . |
| 24 | There 's something wonderfully Renaissance about Norbrook 's depiction of himself as a glutton for poetry , cramming in as much as possible . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had never thought of himself as a master of the understatement , but his message to Hayman was something of a gem . |
| 28 | Ybreska had never thought of himself as an agent , or a spy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Eikon Basilike can now therefore be regarded as an important source for the King 's view of himself as a martyr.7 |