Example sentences of "[to-vb] myself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you expect me to conceive myself as no longer existent ? ’ |
| 2 | To establish myself as a Test player and not only a one-day player . |
| 3 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 4 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 5 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 6 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 7 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 8 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 9 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 10 | It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’ |