Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] himself [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright , who prides himself on being a fierce competitor , was not impressed by the manager 's outburst — but answered the criticism in the best way possible , by scoring Arsenal 's first goal and then keeping them going as Derby fought their way back into the game . |
| 2 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 3 | Almost at once she was aiming her brightest smile at the nearest Ardakkean , who proved himself to be a male by grinning back at her and swelling his chest manfully . |
| 4 | Colebrooke , much lampooned in the press , was a rather pompous , self-important man who considered himself to be the second most influential politician in England . |
| 5 | He prided himself on being a very well esteemed member of the British community . |
| 6 | When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 7 | That day he committed himself to being a busker . |
| 8 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |
| 9 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 10 | Left to his own reflections , he reveals himself to be a bright , keen opportunist . |
| 11 | And when he met and married Nessie Monaghan , he was immediately aware , like any true artist , that she had the better natural voice and he contented himself with being a better-than-ordinary pub tenor and a hit at every christening , wedding and funeral he attended . |
| 12 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 13 | He knew himself to be a good forensic pathologist , reliable , more than competent professionally , almost obsessively thorough and painstaking , a convincing and unflappable witness . |
| 14 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 15 | He felt himself to be a kind of recording angel ; it seemed necessary that someone should see all this who was aware of its sinfulness , of its stench in the nostrils of God . |
| 16 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 17 | He had only been half listening to the conversation but now he forced himself to be a more accommodating guest . |
| 18 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 19 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 20 | " The Lord preserveth the simple , " came the Padre 's voice , quite aptly , it seemed to the Collector for he considered himself to be a simple man . |
| 21 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |