Example sentences of "[prep] himself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 2 | In April he was still having difficulty in completing the book and in a letter to Henry Treece in September he was again expressing doubts about himself as a writer . |
| 3 | This was another characteristic that he had : he often talked about himself as if he had custody of someone who needed a lot of upbringing . |
| 4 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 5 | One day he would like to make a name for himself as a public trainer — but that is some way in the future . |
| 6 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 7 | Abel , who has a CAD/CAM background , worked for himself as Procon Systems Inc . |
| 8 | Abel , who 's apparently got a CAD/CAM background , worked for himself as Procon Systems Inc . |
| 9 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |
| 10 | Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor . |
| 11 | He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness . |
| 12 | Picasso had already acquired a considerable reputation for himself as an original and independent figure . |
| 13 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 14 | Taken along with his restrained reaction to the repression of the pro-democracy movement in China itself [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , his attitude gave rise to some suggestions that he saw a role for himself as a potential mediator in the Hong Kong issue . |
| 15 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 16 | Or else he is able to interpose a living screen between himself as a sinner and God the holy One . |
| 17 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 18 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 19 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 20 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 21 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 24 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 25 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By fostering an image of himself as the inheritor of Charlemagne 's empire , he did much to create that image of Charlemagne which dominated the later middle ages . |
| 30 | In both living and in dramatic playing a participant is continually accommodating to an image of himself as an object in order to communicate with others . |