Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] himself as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 2 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 3 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock presenting himself as the country 's next Prime Minister , won a standing ovation at his Party Conference at Blackpool . |
| 5 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 6 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |