Example sentences of "he [vb past] himself as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God moved in mysterious ways — to Richie he manifested himself as an extremely successful car salesman . |
| 2 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 3 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 4 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 5 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 8 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 9 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 10 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 11 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 12 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 13 | He imagined himself as an officer , in command of Valence and Tundrish . |
| 14 | His own company had been paid his freelance fee by the BBC and he was taxed on what he paid himself as a salary from the company 's turnover . |
| 15 | He fancied himself as a strategist . |
| 16 | He fancied himself as a new Alexander and said he wanted to learn more about the Renaissance in the neighbouring country , so he invaded Italy . |
| 17 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 18 | Nothing is known of Hotham 's early years , but at some time he established himself as a hatter and hosier in Serle Street , Lincoln 's Inn , London , and later ( c .1752 ) in the Strand , advertising his wares by circulating copper tokens in London and the provinces . |
| 19 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 20 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 21 | He saw himself as a courtier only by profession and hated to find himself succumbing already to the sycophantic atmosphere of the Palace offices . |
| 22 | He saw himself as a man who fell in love , not one who had affairs . |
| 23 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 24 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 25 | He saw himself as a great , strong animal who could always protect his girl . |
| 26 | He saw himself as a ladies ’ man , when in his cups , a troubadour from Provence . ’ |
| 27 | He saw himself as a child , running towards someone . |
| 28 | He said that he saw himself as a ‘ medium , not a message ’ . |
| 29 | He saw himself as a good Art teacher : |
| 30 | 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 . |