Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Moreover , users had access to files or documents held by social services that concerned them as individuals . |
| 3 | Their placards announced them as ‘ Catholic Youth Against Witchcraft ’ . |
| 4 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 5 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 6 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 7 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 8 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 9 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 10 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 11 | Bhutto herself dismissed them as " kangaroo courts " and told journalists on Aug. 26 that " we do not accept any tribunal nor do we have any intention to appear before it " . |
| 12 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 13 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 14 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 15 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 16 | In that case Form N79 listed the five allegations of breach of the order of the court which were in fact admitted , but listed them as allegations . |
| 17 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 18 | My mother , wild with exasperation , one day again described me as a lump . |
| 19 | Does the Chief Secretary remember the October 1974 general election when he was my opponent in West Bromwich and then described me as a militant ? |
| 20 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 21 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 22 | The Hasidim idealised them , regarded them as intermediaries between God and his world . |
| 23 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 24 | So far from treating the problems of the inner city as local difficulties which a bit of capitalist enterprise could clear up , it regarded them as evidence of systemic failure . |
| 25 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 26 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 27 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 28 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
| 29 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 30 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |