Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 2 | The government-backed unions are trying to portray themselves as the true and uncompromising voice of the workers : ’ outflanking Solidarity to the left ’ , as one commentator put it . |
| 3 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 4 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 5 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |