Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 2 | When I said I fancied myself as a bit of a Rudolf lookalike , I meant Valentino ! |
| 3 | I saw myself as a write-off as far as boyfriends were concerned . |
| 4 | I saw myself as a sort of martus among miracle-workers , a surf-chanting troubadour . |
| 5 | Before he could speak I introduced myself as a friend of the family . |
| 6 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 7 | She presented herself as a mass of curly hair , decorated with huge teeth and knobbly knees . |
| 8 | While she presented herself as a target , the second galley had rowed against the wind north . |
| 9 | He shuddered , and groaned aloud , and the sperm hit her dress , on her stomach near her navel ; it soaked through the cotton like the spreading warmth of pee , reminding her of when she wet herself as a child , and gave off a quick raw smell . |
| 10 | In the immediate term , we saw ourselves as a resource which the B.Ed . |
| 11 | When he sat , it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster , like a small moustache . |
| 12 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 17 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 18 | He imagined himself as an officer , in command of Valence and Tundrish . |
| 19 | His own company had been paid his freelance fee by the BBC and he was taxed on what he paid himself as a salary from the company 's turnover . |
| 20 | He fancied himself as a strategist . |
| 21 | Nothing is known of Hotham 's early years , but at some time he established himself as a hatter and hosier in Serle Street , Lincoln 's Inn , London , and later ( c .1752 ) in the Strand , advertising his wares by circulating copper tokens in London and the provinces . |
| 22 | He saw himself as a child , running towards someone . |
| 23 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 24 | He saw himself as a man who fell in love , not one who had affairs . |
| 25 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 26 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 27 | He saw himself as an engineer architect . |
| 28 | He saw himself as an empiricist , attacking such woolly concepts as ‘ natural equality ’ and the imaginary ‘ state of nature ’ beloved of the political philosophers . |
| 29 | Of the second category of bishops as regional leaders , the northern prelates afford obvious examples : in 1346 Archbishop Zouche and Bishop Kirkby of Carlisle participated in the defeat of the Scots at Neville 's Cross , while Bishop Hatfield of Durham rode into battle at Crécy ; ten years later he , too , campaigned against the Scots , and in 1372 he offered himself as a mercenary in the pope 's wars in Italy . |
| 30 | He projected himself as a man who would be worth listening to . |