Example sentences of "[vb past] him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 2 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 3 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 4 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 5 | W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] dismissed him as ‘ all blood , dirt , and sucked sugar-stick ’ , yet it is likely that , had he survived the war , Owen would have grown in stature to span the native tradition between Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin [ qq.v . ] . |
| 6 | Churchill , when frustrated by Eisenhower , grumbled that the president was " weak and stupid " , and he later contemptuously dismissed him as Dulles 's " ventriloquist 's doll " . |
| 7 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 8 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 9 | Then Robert Altman cast him as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And Theo . |
| 10 | And then Francis Ford Coppola cast him as Sodapop in The Outsiders , the movie which launched a whole schoolroom of teenagers into proper stardom — Tom Cruise , Emilio Estevez , Matt Dillon and Lowe among them . |
| 11 | Commercial directories listed him as physician in Shifnal . |
| 12 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 13 | Nicky scolded him as if he were a misbehaving son . |
| 14 | That would , almost certainly , rule out the return of Kevin Keegan , who ended his short-term managerial contract two weeks ago by demanding the £2m he says Sir John promised him as a condition of a three-year contract . |
| 15 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 16 | The citation described him as an officer of extreme gallantry , with the qualities of coolness and high powers of leadership under the most trying circumstances . |
| 17 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 18 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 19 | He described him as ‘ a retired civil servant who has made Shakespeare his hobby ’ . |
| 20 | Laughed at when his US promoter described him as ‘ the new Marvin Hagler ’ ; now having the last laugh back home in Ilford |
| 21 | The Sporting Life 's run-down of the runners described him as ‘ this no-hoper ’ . |
| 22 | Steve Cauthen , having his first race ride on Arazi yesterday , described him as a suitable type for Epsom . |
| 23 | Mr Ken Maginnis , MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone , described him as a ‘ very fair man ’ who was easy to communicate with . |
| 24 | The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him . |
| 25 | Eamonn McCann described him as a ‘ passionate Republican , much given to violent rhetoric ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |
| 27 | When she first saw his picture she described him as ‘ an extremely unattractive man with very little , if any , sex appeal ’ . |
| 28 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |
| 29 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 30 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |