Example sentences of "he [vb -s] himself as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 3 | He describes himself as a ‘ career manager ’ and has extensive experience of hotels . |
| 4 | He describes himself as a ‘ false witness ’ to his times in that he chooses to depict , for the most part , scenes of unexpected joy and pleasure in the midst of lives which might , at first sight , appear bleak and colourless . |
| 5 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 6 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 7 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 8 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 9 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 10 | This idea establishes ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ in the play — Eddie is forgiven by Rodolpho and B. and to a certain extent Catherine , thus establishing them as ‘ goodies ’ , while by refusing to repent he establishes himself as a ‘ baddie ’ and loses the respect of his audience . |
| 11 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 12 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 13 | In fact , Joe , er , Mark Little has upped and left Oz in favour of England — after touring this country with his one-man show ( he fancies himself as a bit of a new age traveller ) , he wants to settle down in near Manchester . |
| 14 | He fancies himself as a gutter poet and artist . ’ |
| 15 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 16 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 17 | He sees himself as a protector . |
| 18 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 19 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 22 | Though born in Britain , he regards himself as a citizen of Europe and Italy as his adopted home . |
| 23 | In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries . |
| 24 | He asserts himself as a poet ( note that we still today think of him primarily as a " poet " rather than as a " writer " ) superior to the ridiculous doggerel of Sir Thopas . |
| 25 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 26 | Wishing for ‘ much the same unity on a higher plane ’ , he presents himself as a kind of agriculturalist , concerned with ‘ our relation to the spiritual soil ’ . |
| 27 | For first he presents himself as a nice , serious , liberated person . |
| 28 | In them he presents himself as a ‘ pickle ’ , that is as a self-confessed reprobate , who made good . |
| 29 | He presents himself as an individualist , who only later and almost reluctantly becomes aware of the wider aspects of the war as a battle for civilization and humanity . |
| 30 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |