Example sentences of "himself [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was then anxious to win the support of the Yorkist establishment and , both as protector and during his early weeks as king , represented himself rather as the only hope for the continuance of the good government of Edward IV . |
| 2 | He is persistently encouraged to see himself rather as the person responsible for seeing that learning happens . |
| 3 | He was then anxious to win the support of the Yorkist establishment and , both as protector and during his early weeks as king , represented himself rather as the only hope for the continuance of the good government of Edward IV . |
| 4 | He released himself gently as he could and stood up , half-laughing ‘ That was a very strenuous good-night kiss , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 6 | He loved these allusions to river craft and the water , once describing himself approvingly as looking like a rough bargeman . |
| 7 | He had locked himself in as he did not want to be disturbed by Emily . |
| 8 | He likes Basingstoke and as the youngest member of the cast of 16 , he is enjoying himself immensely as Young Charlie in Little Tramp — he reckons it is the best show he 's been in . |
| 9 | John Patten came out of No 10 looking pleased with himself just as William Waldegrave arrived looking rather less so . |
| 10 | purifying himself just as he is pure . |
| 11 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 12 | The pursuer threw himself aside as the vehicle mounted the pavement , slamming into a lamp-post . |
| 13 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 14 | A man — any man — can buy such a place , set himself up as headmaster , and run it as he likes . |
| 15 | To do this he has to set himself up as one of the scared people of the modern world , a textbook example of homo neuroticus . |
| 16 | Ruth could imagine him at sale rooms , carefully handling dusty china , gently touching worn , cracked furniture , grey eyes seeming to question himself inwardly as he gazed ; he would rarely fail , she thought , in spotting what was truly valuable . |
| 17 | ‘ How bad it would be , ’ Marty told himself callously as he watched him go , ‘ to have your bed and your bellyful and no worries at all ! ’ |
| 18 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 19 | The cases do suggest , however , that where a director does possess a relevant expertise he should be judged by the standards of a competent practitioner of it , presumably on the ground that he has expressly or impliedly held himself out as being appropriately qualified . |
| 20 | An own-brander is liable if he has own-branded the goods in such a way as to hold himself out as being the producer . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 22 | If an agent enters into the transaction , then for certain types of investment and if the agent does not regularly hold himself out as buying investments , the transaction is excluded . |
| 23 | This restates the previous position at common law , that a person who holds himself out as being prepared to carry out a service is expected to exercise a level of skill that could be expected of a reasonably competent member of the relevant trade . |
| 24 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 25 | A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 26 | Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 27 | Alec Stewart ran himself out as he tried for a sharp single to cover and found Atherton unwilling to budge at the non-striker 's end . |
| 28 | He had been a nippy winger in Palace 's promotions side of 1963–64 and then acquitted himself well as we consolidated in Division Two , so he was a welcome recruit at Selhurst Park in mid-September 1971 , when Bert Head was restructuring his team in a successful attempt to ensure 1st Division survival . |
| 29 | And so he hugged his loneliness to himself even as he bemoaned it . |