Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] himself as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 2 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 3 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 4 | He started to distinguish himself as an athlete of no mean promise and , understandably , invitations to meetings out of the area were forthcoming . |
| 5 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 6 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 7 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 8 | Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse . |
| 9 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 10 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 11 | He was in uniform , very much in the situation in which Lewis had found himself as an undergraduate at Univ . |
| 12 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 13 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 14 | He had signed himself as a signature on the ark . |
| 15 | The Treasurer was Joseph Barnard , who had established himself as a coal merchant in Bedford by 1773 , after which he founded the bank which bore his name . |
| 16 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 17 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |