Example sentences of "he [vb past] himself to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 2 | That day he committed himself to being a busker . |
| 3 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 4 | It was to the former that he believed himself to be responding . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 6 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 7 | I looked at his face , which was something I did seldom , for I did n't like it , and saw that he did n't believe me ; that he found it inconceivable that I should n't love him ; that , ageing and unmarried though he was , he believed himself to be irresistible . |
| 8 | Absorbing his father 's deep piety , he believed himself to be in direct communication with angels , and with the Lord himself , who had predestined him to be ‘ King of Kings and Solar King of the World ’ , sent to repopulate his nation . |
| 9 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 10 | He was pushing manhood , and much too well aware of that , though he believed himself to be much nearer maturity than he actually was . |
| 11 | He knew he was , in some ways , a priggish , unimaginative man : he believed himself to be also an honest one . |
| 12 | Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 13 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |
| 14 | One mattered for him personally : he showed himself to be his own man . |
| 15 | In Have I Got News For You he showed himself to be quick , witty and well able to take jokes levelled against himself . |
| 16 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 17 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 18 | With less alacrity he allowed himself to be guided across the other lane of the avenue , on to the safety of the pavement , and to an oddly impressive square , framed by the Catholic Cathedral , the Opera House , and the old Royal Library . |
| 19 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 20 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 21 | Linguistically , the text presented no challenge , as he allowed himself to be guided by the two translations already in use in the Anglican liturgy , those of the Book of Common prayer psalter , and the Authorised Version of the Bible . |
| 22 | He allowed himself to be hustled into the background of affairs by men with narrower views and nearer objectives . " |
| 23 | What machinations might not his rivals — other MPs and would-be MPs in his constituency — engage in behind his back if he allowed himself to be so absorbed in parliamentary affairs as to be negligent in the continuous wooing of his voters ? |
| 24 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 25 | Afraid and thrown in turmoil he allowed himself to be drawn away , but he could not push that lovely face from his thoughts . |
| 26 | He allowed himself to be driven towards one wall by a new series of attacks , then kicked , rolled , and dived forward under Alexei 's guard . |
| 27 | He allowed himself to be filmed on television absent-mindedly pouring a bottle of Petrus into the stew . |
| 28 | He allowed himself to be groped by motherly women crammed into uniforms of the kind which once might have been issued to the Croatian National Guard , and entered the ante-hall of the conference centre with a quite irrational lifting of the spirit . |
| 29 | In early 1942 , for example , he allowed himself to be photographed with Madame de Gaulle in a domestic " off-duty " setting . |
| 30 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |