Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself as the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . "
2 He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order .
3 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 .
4 Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador .
5 In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman .
6 But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) .
7 Arkwright Myers , a fifty-year-old fitness freak , introduces himself as the owner .
8 MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism .
9 In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries .
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