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 . |