Example sentences of "[prep] myself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was proud of myself as a soldier , ’ said Loy Im , a 32-year-old former Khmer Rouge commander who had deserted to rejoin his family after 17 years in the jungle . |
| 2 | I think of myself as a pretty good businesswoman now . |
| 3 | Remember , I 've never thought of myself as anything other than an amateur . |
| 4 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 5 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's no good — I just ca n't seem to think of myself as a European yob ’ |
| 7 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 8 | A strong intellectual or emotional appeal may reinforce self-image ; the appeal bolsters up my idea of myself as a rational/analytical/ thinking person or as a warm/empathetic/sensitive one . |
| 9 | My own sense of myself as a person directly conflicted with the kind of girl who was sung about in pop songs … . |
| 10 | So , I have pictures of myself as a boss , a father , a spouse , a friend , etc . |
| 11 | I only think of myself as a housewife when I have to fill up a form . |
| 12 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 13 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 14 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 15 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 16 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |
| 17 | In this passage Hegel is asking the question : How do I become aware of myself as a self ? |
| 18 | Take BIS Beecom International , founded in the mid-1970s by Paul McWilliams , a quietly spoken computer boffin ( ‘ I like to think of myself as a guru ’ ) . |
| 19 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 20 | I read The Second Sex and A Room of One 's Own at the same age , and thought of myself as a feminist , although this had to remain a privately held conviction for several years more . |
| 21 | I think of myself as a boy . |
| 22 | I do n't really think of myself as a mother . |
| 23 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 24 | I wanted to go to the Yorkshire Moors or the Lake District : I had romantic visions of myself as a drystone waller , indomitable against the elements . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean , I can think of myself as that ? ’ she asked , trembling . |
| 26 | At puberty I started thinking of myself as a hijra . |
| 27 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
| 28 | I 've always thought of myself as a sensible person , yet I allowed myself to do that . |
| 29 | OFTEN I ‘ ve thought of myself as a state ; a country or , at the very least , a city . |
| 30 | I did n't think of myself as one of them , then ; now I do n't see I should have left myself out . |