Example sentences of "see himself as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well can one imagine Knobelsdorf , swept along by ambition , seeing himself as the organiser of victory at Verdun , exalted to become the Ludendorff of the Western Front . |
| 2 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 3 | Mosley came increasingly to see himself as the spokesman of the war generation , who refused to compromise his idealistic principles with the political realities of the post-war world . |
| 4 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 9 | Mandeville , who saw himself as the King 's own commissioner and therefore self-appointed leader , shouted orders ; the great gates swung open , and he led us out . |
| 10 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 11 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 12 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 13 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 14 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |