Example sentences of "[verb] himself [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 2 | Cipollini , who recently declared himself to be the fastest finisher in the world , crossed the line in second place but with both arms in the air in protest over Abdoujaparov 's jersey-pull , which , say the race referees , occurred twice in the last half-mile . |
| 3 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |
| 4 | MODEL David Wood has proved himself to be the brave face of '93 by winning a top modelling event — just after a successful fight against cancer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 7 | 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 . |