Example sentences of "[noun prp] describes [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 2 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 3 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and Marilyn Thornton describes herself thus : |
| 6 | Zoe describes herself as ‘ a chameleon ’ ‘ I do what I like and I have a good time doing it . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |