Example sentences of "he describes [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He describes himself as a ‘ career manager ’ and has extensive experience of hotels . |
| 2 | Though he describes himself as ‘ pro-life ’ , he did nothing to push the anti-abortion bill through parliament . |
| 3 | The fame of Ian Dury — godfather of punk , creator of Sex ‘ n ’ Drugs and Rock ‘ n ’ Roll and , as he describes himself in rhyming slang , ‘ Britain 's best-known raspberry ripple ’ — has not yet reached every corner of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford . |
| 4 | He describes himself as a ‘ false witness ’ to his times in that he chooses to depict , for the most part , scenes of unexpected joy and pleasure in the midst of lives which might , at first sight , appear bleak and colourless . |
| 5 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 6 | In conversation this is a rare moment of levity , as he describes himself as ‘ a bit of a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 7 | In an advertisement in the Northampton Mercury of 27 April 1747 he describes himself simply as a millwright , but goes on to offer his services as a manufacturer and repairer of many kinds of agricultural machinery , weighbridges and ‘ mathematical and philosophical instruments ’ , as a designer of all kinds of mills , as a maker of ventilators for hospitals , gaols , granaries , or ships , and as a surveyor of gentlemen 's estates . |
| 8 | In his poetry he describes himself as ‘ one bred up in homely Cott ’ . |
| 9 | He describes himself as having ‘ worked his way single-mindedly downwards ’ since a burst of popularity on the Sixties satirical circuit — and part of the reason for that is his determined production of radical anthems regardless of political or musical fashion . |
| 10 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 11 | Today he describes himself as ‘ an active pensioner ’ — and , indeed , is very sprightly both in mind and body . |
| 12 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 13 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 14 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 15 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 16 | As he describes himself he had been , during the nineties at Cambridge and afterwards , a rather worldly , flippant creature , erm but after this experience something changed within him , and he says , and I suppose , I think we must believe that it is true , that it was on account of this sort of moral mystical experience that his whole attitude to the world was changed , and he was provided with the peculiar moral strength to fight the battles , as he later did fight , against war and other such things . |