Example sentences of "of himself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |
| 2 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 3 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 4 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 5 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 6 | The Roman Church of the time was quite prepared to concur with Constantine 's conception of himself as a genuine Messiah , and a more successful Messiah than Jesus . |
| 7 | He thought of himself as a great collector — I believe there were great collections of Chinese porcelain made by Victorian and Edwardian connoisseurs , but he was pretty small fry , just being fashionable . " |
| 8 | He spoke of himself as a hapless , hopeless , helpless male , seven years in thrall to an unknowing , uncaring , unattainable She . |
| 9 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 10 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 11 | This dual heritage sharpened the sense of himself as a fused centre between the dream world of a long-vanished civilization and the natural world he observed scientifically . |
| 12 | He thought of himself as a responsible and dependable person . |
| 13 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 14 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 15 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 16 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 17 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 18 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 20 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 21 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 22 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 23 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 24 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |