Example sentences of "[noun] describes [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 2 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 3 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 4 | JOHN SESSIONS describes himself as an actor , comedian and writer , in that order . |
| 5 | The agnostic 42-year-old former drama teacher describes himself as ‘ a teller of tales , stories and elaborate lies ’ . |
| 6 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 7 | The author describes himself as ‘ a man of no profession , and following this and every other pursuit through a general and independent love of science , and a desire of substituting its just authority in every part of science to the offensive usurpation of ignorance and imposture ’ . |
| 8 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 9 | The menu describes itself as a ‘ Supper Menu ’ and emphasises there 's no need for reservations . |
| 10 | Gideon describes himself as a member of the weakest group in his tribe and as ‘ the least important member ’ of his family ! |
| 11 | Russell Corporation describes itself as one of the world 's largest manufacturers of ‘ teamwear ’ , supplying outfits for most of the professional baseball teams and American Football teams in the United States . |
| 12 | Koda describes himself as semi-trained . |
| 13 | More perplexing is the fact that although she gets all her work from one firm and has no control over the quantity , this woman describes herself as ‘ self-employed ’ . |
| 14 | More surprising , one candidate describes himself as unemployed : Eric Clarke , the Left-wing former miner and senior NUM official . |
| 15 | Ecstasy is a flight of the mind in which the mystic describes himself as being transported to another world . |
| 16 | Angela describes herself as ‘ a mobile Hatch End ’ , but adds that the philosophy has changed radically , with a new emphasis on local , tailor-made training in the UK . |
| 17 | Leapor describes herself as the woman 's ‘ Slave ’ in ‘ The Disappointment ’ [ ML , 2 , 81 ] . |
| 18 | Roddick describes herself and her husband as ‘ children of the 1960s ’ . |
| 19 | and Marilyn Thornton describes herself thus : |
| 20 | Zoe describes herself as ‘ a chameleon ’ ‘ I do what I like and I have a good time doing it . ’ |
| 21 | The company describes itself as ‘ essentially a warehousing operation with a sales front end ’ , and believes it is unique as a distribution agent in its very clearly defined ‘ editorial ’ view , which ensures that the mix of publishers whom it represents falls into three distinct categories : mind , body and spirit ; women 's ; and literature . |
| 22 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 23 | In the introduction to his first published work , Lodwick describes himself as not a scholar but a ‘ mechanick ’ , but his surviving library catalogue demonstrates that , even if self-educated , he was extremely well read . |