Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronics specialist or not , he regarded himself primarily as a classicist and– indeed , he was totally fluent in reading and writing both Latin and Greek . |
| 2 | In an advertisement in the Northampton Mercury of 27 April 1747 he describes himself simply as a millwright , but goes on to offer his services as a manufacturer and repairer of many kinds of agricultural machinery , weighbridges and ‘ mathematical and philosophical instruments ’ , as a designer of all kinds of mills , as a maker of ventilators for hospitals , gaols , granaries , or ships , and as a surveyor of gentlemen 's estates . |
| 3 | He sees himself more as a poet , his mind receptive to many ideas and influences , some visual , some musical , some literary , which he amalgamates into his work in a similar way to Proust writing A La Research du Temps Perdu . |
| 4 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 5 | ‘ He sees himself more as your friend than your doctor , ’ explained Beuno . |
| 6 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 7 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 8 | He puts himself forward as its leader . |