Example sentences of "himself to [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuppe knew himself to be the stuff of epics . |
| 2 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 3 | Farr-Jones has not only proven himself to be the world 's leading scrum-half , but his captaincy over the past four years has grown in maturity and stature with each test and tour match . |
| 4 | George made five journeys to the United States , both as an amateur and as a professional , and proved himself to be the world 's greatest middle-distance runner , so starting a British tradition which was continued by Wooderson , ( Sir ) Roger Bannister , Derek Ibbotson , Steve Ovett , Sebastian Coe , and Steve Cram . |
| 5 | ‘ I go by there most days , ’ said the farmer , proving himself to be the sort of chap who does not mess about but gets straight to the point . |
| 6 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 7 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 8 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |