Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] himself to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan , on the other hand , soon showed himself to be an effective campaigner who projected an attractive and reassuring image on television . |
| 2 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |
| 3 | After a brief phase of unambiguous Atlanticism at the beginning of the Cold War , de Gaulle soon showed himself to be a cold warrior with one eye on the danger of " le protectorat de Washington " . |
| 4 | This was a silly notion , but nevertheless , that was why he genuinely believed himself to be a failure . |
| 5 | If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless . |
| 6 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 7 | At heart he still felt himself to be a pastor of the sheep . |
| 8 | He always considered himself to be Reformed and praised the Westminster Assembly , that there was ‘ never a synod of more excellent divines than this and the Synod of Dort ’ . |
| 9 | While planning future political developments on a national level , the Prince also applied himself to being President in a more symbolic sense . |
| 10 | The preacher at its official opening in 1896 was the Revd John Hugh Smyth-Pigott who later proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ and who became Prince 's successor at the Agapemone . |
| 11 | Ramsay now found himself to be in command of this detachment , the only knight present . |
| 12 | In his anxiety he often allowed himself to be beaten down in price . |
| 13 | By way of total contrast , I can point to Birchfield sprinter Phil Brown , who never really felt himself to be any different from other school children and admitted to having ‘ no identity with other blacks ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't said anything against them , ’ Gaily knew himself to be a tolerant man , ‘ the young … ’ |
| 15 | He refused to live under a regime which sanctioned the burning of books ; nor , since many of his friends and the writers he published were Jewish — as , indeed , he sometimes felt himself to be — would he tolerate the government 's anti-Semitism . |
| 16 | He looked away , momentarily overcome by the strength of what he still felt for her , then forced himself to be insistent . |
| 17 | Cipollini , who recently declared himself to be the fastest finisher in the world , crossed the line in second place but with both arms in the air in protest over Abdoujaparov 's jersey-pull , which , say the race referees , occurred twice in the last half-mile . |
| 18 | Mahmoud reluctantly allowed himself to be pulled down . |
| 19 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 20 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |