Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 3 | Moving from her external trappings to her internal structure , he represents her as a sort of wooden skeleton . |
| 4 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 5 | He describes himself as a ‘ career manager ’ and has extensive experience of hotels . |
| 6 | He describes himself as a ‘ false witness ’ to his times in that he chooses to depict , for the most part , scenes of unexpected joy and pleasure in the midst of lives which might , at first sight , appear bleak and colourless . |
| 7 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 8 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 9 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 10 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 11 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 12 | He describes them as an investment , but critics describe the paintings as worthless rubbish . |
| 13 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 14 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 15 | This idea establishes ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ in the play — Eddie is forgiven by Rodolpho and B. and to a certain extent Catherine , thus establishing them as ‘ goodies ’ , while by refusing to repent he establishes himself as a ‘ baddie ’ and loses the respect of his audience . |
| 16 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 17 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 18 | In fact , Joe , er , Mark Little has upped and left Oz in favour of England — after touring this country with his one-man show ( he fancies himself as a bit of a new age traveller ) , he wants to settle down in near Manchester . |
| 19 | He fancies himself as a gutter poet and artist . ’ |
| 20 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 21 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 22 | He sees himself as a protector . |
| 23 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 24 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 25 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 26 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 27 | He sees them as an ‘ albums ’ band but would like them to have Top 10 hits in the singles charts . |
| 28 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 29 | He sees him as an idealist , likes his ‘ spark ’ . |
| 30 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |