Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] himself [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 3 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 4 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 7 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 8 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He reveals Himself in a receptor-orientated fashion ’ ( Kraft 1979:169 ) . |
| 10 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 11 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 12 | When a character steps through the ever-changing arch , he finds himself on a narrow pathway through a forest of bizarre trees . |
| 13 | For first he presents himself as a nice , serious , liberated person . |
| 14 | He appears progressive in advocating an income tax as the basis or an arrangement by which people might give according to their means and take according to their need , and sees this in terms of the possibilities of socialism , but at the same time he lends himself to a strong laissez-faire interpretation highly restrictive of the involvement of the state ( 1978 : 315–18 ) . |