Example sentences of "refer to himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | He mockingly referred to himself as Sir Tone and said : ‘ My wife is much more thrilled about it than I am . |
| 3 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 4 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 5 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 6 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 7 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 8 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 9 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 10 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 11 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |