Example sentences of "[pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bears the initials RHR and commemorates Robert Henry Ruston , known to everyone as Harry . |
| 2 | She and Giancarlo sat at a table with a distinguished-looking woman in her fifties , whose name Constance could not remember but who was referred to by everyone as Contessa , and her son , Pino , who laughed a lot and told Constance anecdotes about the other guests . |
| 3 | Lord Grimond , known to everyone as Jo , left the Commons ten years ago , but continued in the House of Lords as a life peer . |
| 4 | Siobhan identifies me to everyone as Claudia Coe , Crilly 's girlfriend from America . |
| 5 | Known to everyone as Hamish , he was quite without side ( he refused a peerage ) , and off the bench , and sometimes on it , he had the charm and endless curiosity of a small boy . |
| 6 | Cabinet Ministers were ‘ corralled ’ to give an immediate judgement between Harold Macmillan and me as successor . |
| 7 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 8 | I do n't find that difficult , that 's really expected of me as part of the caring . |
| 9 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 10 | Finally they seemed to accept me as part of the landscape and came within the range of my camera . |
| 11 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 12 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 13 | The room struck me as chill . |
| 14 | The evening of talented entertainment was hilarious and also included shafts of criticism expressed in humour that struck me as evidence of CA 's basic good health . |
| 15 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 16 | There , I would be just as much a stranger , but they would have to define themselves against me as natives against incomers , or in terms of social classification . |
| 17 | My friends call me Benny , but you can address me as Professor Summerfield . |
| 18 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 19 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 20 | Most of the older people in the parish remember me as Florrie Scoble . ’ |
| 21 | Being ‘ in on it ’ , so to speak , had dissolved fear ; and death , for the first time , seemed as natural to me as birth . |
| 22 | And then we talked of more interesting things , things by now as familiar to me as legend , in a sort of litany , each speaking in turn . |
| 23 | The important issue for me as chairman throughout that period was to remember that once the Prime Minister had said that Westland was a private-sector problem which must be solved by private-sector measures and techniques , one 's interests were obviously the shareholders , the employees , the customers and the banks , since the company was heavily indebted . |
| 24 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 25 | Your asking me as chairman of the board and I think I can speak to the board I think that the theatre has actually managed very well . |
| 26 | Any parent is very welcome to contact me as Chairman of the East Sussex Dyslexia Association on Eastbourne three four seven six two . |
| 27 | But with me as Connie Fraser . |
| 28 | The Headman too was bright and intelligent , and they had a cheery conversation with me as interpreter . |
| 29 | But my friends all know me as Buck . ’ |
| 30 | And before the end of the first term everyone knew me as crocodile . |