Example sentences of "have present himself " in BNC.

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1 To the great irritation of John Smith 's supporters , Gould has presented himself skilfully as the ideas candidate .
2 No Englishman could now have presented himself in Vienna without attracting the attention of the Grand Army , and with his accent he could not have hoped to pass for Austrian .
3 Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy .
4 It seemed like only yesterday that he had presented himself at Manchester 's Ringway Airport for training with the newly formed Parachute Regiment .
5 Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse .
6 " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) .
7 He did n't have to change , he simply had to present himself as more of a lovable reprobate than as a spirit of corruption ; PR was everything , as long as it did n't cross the thin line over into patronisation .
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