Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] himself as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " . |
| 3 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 4 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 5 | Otto Preminger — or Otto the Ogre — was another Viennese-born film director who established himself as a man many loved to hate . |
| 6 | Or how about U.S. lock and Air Force captain Kevin Swords , who established himself as a world-class player and leader at the 1991 World Cup , but is still totally ignored in the U.S. outside the rugby community ? |
| 7 | My anger increased when the meeting Director , Len Smith ( who fancied himself as a pocket-sized version of our trenchant promotions officer Andy Norman ) , said to me , ‘ If you do n't run , you 'll never run again . |
| 8 | The King , who fancied himself as a theologian , greatly admired Andrewes ' learning and style ; sometimes , indeed , he would sleep with one of his sermons under his pillow . |
| 9 | Hilary was a boy who saw himself as a connoisseur of experience . |
| 10 | And a combination of that early research and the Trent Bridge base aided his biography of Arthur Shrewsbury , Give Me Arthur : ‘ One day the door opened and an elderly man who introduced himself as a relative of Shrewsbury came in . |
| 11 | It was Mr Florio , elected in 1989 , who floated himself as a trial balloon for Clintonomics . |
| 12 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 13 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 14 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 15 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He describes himself as a ‘ career manager ’ and has extensive experience of hotels . |
| 22 | He describes himself as a ‘ false witness ’ to his times in that he chooses to depict , for the most part , scenes of unexpected joy and pleasure in the midst of lives which might , at first sight , appear bleak and colourless . |
| 23 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 24 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 25 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 26 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 27 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 28 | This idea establishes ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ in the play — Eddie is forgiven by Rodolpho and B. and to a certain extent Catherine , thus establishing them as ‘ goodies ’ , while by refusing to repent he establishes himself as a ‘ baddie ’ and loses the respect of his audience . |
| 29 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 30 | 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 . |