Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outspoken ENB member Jim McIntegart threatened the UKCC with a High Court Injunction if it did not allow him to describe himself as an RMN . |
| 2 | God moved in mysterious ways — to Richie he manifested himself as an extremely successful car salesman . |
| 3 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 4 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 5 | He imagined himself as an officer , in command of Valence and Tundrish . |
| 6 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 7 | He saw himself as an empiricist , attacking such woolly concepts as ‘ natural equality ’ and the imaginary ‘ state of nature ’ beloved of the political philosophers . |
| 8 | He saw himself as an engineer architect . |
| 9 | He presents himself as an individualist , who only later and almost reluctantly becomes aware of the wider aspects of the war as a battle for civilization and humanity . |
| 10 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |