Example sentences of "describe himself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shopkeeper from a slave line might describe himself as a free Zuwayi without incongruity ; but other people would usually call him abd , a black with an enslaved grandparent somewhere in his line . |
| 2 | Hamad Hasan did not describe himself as a free Zuwayi , but his ventures into gardening and trade , and his use of his agricultural knowledge and skills , were characteristic activities of free men . |
| 3 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 4 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |
| 5 | He , I suppose , would describe himself as a chauffeur-handyman . |
| 6 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 8 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 9 | The peer , who is suing over allegations that he is a war criminal , described himself as a ‘ human being and a good Christian ’ . |
| 10 | Another backbencher , Sir Anthony Meyer , described himself as ‘ a burnt offering ’ who might stand against Mrs Thatcher if no one else would . |
| 11 | Roberts described himself as ‘ the enfant terrible of British ufology . |
| 12 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 13 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 14 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 15 | No wonder , then , that the poet described himself as ‘ a wanderer ’ , supporting the literal sense of the next poem 's conclusion . |
| 16 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 17 | This letter was also signed by Arthur Withers who described himself as ‘ a member of the advance guard ’ . |
| 18 | Ernest Bevin , Brown 's great predecessor as foreign secretary , described himself as ‘ a turn-up in a million ’ . |
| 19 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 20 | He described himself as ‘ a young man of pure British descent , some of whose forefathers have held high positions in the British army . |
| 21 | He still described himself as a private tutor and the purpose of his journey abroad as ‘ holiday touring ’ . |
| 22 | W. T. Stead described himself as ‘ a child of the revival of 1859–60 ’ which had swept across the Atlantic and won hundreds of thousands of converts ( over a hundred thousand in Ulster alone ) . |
| 23 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 24 | The appellant , who described himself as a self-employed accountant , falsely claimed to be an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 25 | The appellant described himself as a self-employed accountant . |
| 26 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 27 | Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic . |
| 28 | In 1622 Swan followed his father to Trinity College , Cambridge , graduating BA in 1626 and MA in 1629 ; he later described himself as BD . |
| 29 | In 1681 he described himself as ‘ gardener to her Majestie ’ , probably Henrietta Maria [ q.v. ] , the dowager queen , at Somerset House , before she left England in 1665 , rather than Catherine of Braganza , Charles II 's consort , who is not recorded as sharing her mother-in-law 's interest in gardening . |
| 30 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |