Example sentences of "see himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | R. J. Campbell even had the honour of seeing himself in wax at Madame Tussauds . |
| 2 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 3 | Some years before , he had founded in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon a chapel in honour of St Thomas Becket and he was inclined to see himself in that tradition of defiance of the crown . |
| 4 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
| 5 | Defoe , who travelled more of the roads of the country than most of his contemporaries , was inclined to see himself in the foothills of a better transport age — the equal of the fabled Roman achievement . |
| 6 | Yet Æthelred was not always militarily inactive , reluctant to see himself in a military light , or unwilling to make military preparations . |
| 7 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 8 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 9 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 10 | He liked the boy , could see himself in Michael . |
| 11 | Webster agrees but could never see himself in Simmons shoes : |
| 12 | Li Shai Tung stared at the urbane , highly-sophisticated man standing at his side and laughed briefly , bemused that Shepherd could see himself in that brutal portrait . |
| 13 | Can I argue and persuade for moderation , when every baron along the march will see himself in Grey 's shoes ? |
| 14 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 15 | It is only in the pursuit of important goals that he may see himself in a negative light , and only during the recurrence of situations similar to the childhood loss that brought the negative schema into existence . |
| 16 | Both Charles the Bald , his grandson , and Alfred in England , compared themselves to Solomon , ruling in accordance with divine wisdom , and Alfred as a lawgiver saw himself in a succession of lawgivers beginning with Moses . |
| 17 | Without a shadow of doubt Steven Morrissey always saw himself in that light . |
| 18 | Henry saw himself in the air , high above the sea and the shingle , spread out like a starfish , Elinor above him , cackling wildly . |
| 19 | Peter , unable to bear such a pedestrian first appointment ( he saw himself in those days as a fervent worker priest ) , chafed almost from their arrival . |
| 20 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 21 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 22 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |