Example sentences of "[vb past] himself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollock found himself as a painter during the 1940s . |
| 2 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 3 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 4 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 5 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 6 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 7 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 8 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 9 | The peer , who is suing over allegations that he is a war criminal , described himself as a ‘ human being and a good Christian ’ . |
| 10 | Another backbencher , Sir Anthony Meyer , described himself as ‘ a burnt offering ’ who might stand against Mrs Thatcher if no one else would . |
| 11 | Roberts described himself as ‘ the enfant terrible of British ufology . |
| 12 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 13 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 14 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 15 | No wonder , then , that the poet described himself as ‘ a wanderer ’ , supporting the literal sense of the next poem 's conclusion . |
| 16 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 17 | This letter was also signed by Arthur Withers who described himself as ‘ a member of the advance guard ’ . |
| 18 | Ernest Bevin , Brown 's great predecessor as foreign secretary , described himself as ‘ a turn-up in a million ’ . |
| 19 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 20 | He described himself as ‘ a young man of pure British descent , some of whose forefathers have held high positions in the British army . |
| 21 | He still described himself as a private tutor and the purpose of his journey abroad as ‘ holiday touring ’ . |
| 22 | W. T. Stead described himself as ‘ a child of the revival of 1859–60 ’ which had swept across the Atlantic and won hundreds of thousands of converts ( over a hundred thousand in Ulster alone ) . |
| 23 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 24 | The appellant , who described himself as a self-employed accountant , falsely claimed to be an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 25 | The appellant described himself as a self-employed accountant . |
| 26 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 27 | Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic . |
| 28 | In 1622 Swan followed his father to Trinity College , Cambridge , graduating BA in 1626 and MA in 1629 ; he later described himself as BD . |
| 29 | In 1681 he described himself as ‘ gardener to her Majestie ’ , probably Henrietta Maria [ q.v. ] , the dowager queen , at Somerset House , before she left England in 1665 , rather than Catherine of Braganza , Charles II 's consort , who is not recorded as sharing her mother-in-law 's interest in gardening . |
| 30 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |