Example sentences of "[vb past] them as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet smelled them as soon as she was inside the house . |
| 2 | The day after those comments , Robert Dole , the Republican leader in the Senate , branded them as ‘ incredible ’ . |
| 3 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 4 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 5 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |
| 6 | I drunk them as well . |
| 7 | Oh you drunk them as well ? |
| 8 | She opened her eyes wide and amazed , and then lowered them as she made a rapid calculation . |
| 9 | I have to disagree with Adrian Thrills in the NME who labelled them as weak and below par . |
| 10 | It labelled them as personal opinion and suggested that in future the press question everything said at any time by DEC staff , no matter how high ranking , to assure themselves they are getting the company line . |
| 11 | In the past it seems a lot went further and either provided the workers with documentation of their relationship which labelled them as employees or , and contrary to the requirements of the Employment Agencies Act , failed to specify that they were not . |
| 12 | Finnan labelled them as they ate their evening meal . |
| 13 | However , Mr Doug McAvoy , the NUT 's general secretary , dismissed them as unrepresentative ‘ noisy ones ’ . |
| 14 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 15 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
| 16 | Some dealers dismissed them as meaningless , since they left out the UK 's biggest trading partners on the continent . |
| 17 | Guide books and handbooks for travellers often dismissed them as being of little interest . |
| 18 | With a quantity of black looks and complaints , the Guildsmen shuffled away towards their homes , and the Bishop blessed them as they went . |
| 19 | Official Iraqi statements reported them as having bombed residential areas , a charge denied by Tehran . |
| 20 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 21 | By the turn of this century they were plentiful in Scotland , eventually becoming so numerous that commercial foresters regarded them as vermin because of their liking for pine buds and needles ( a trait which , according to gourmets , makes them taste strongly of turpentine ) . |
| 22 | Tory members who felt that Mr Lawson regarded them as intellectual pigmies ( as , doubtless , he did ) are puffed up with pleasure at how this kinder , gentler chancellor listens to them . |
| 23 | ‘ We wanted to make the Cabaret Voltaire a focal point of the ‘ newest art ’ , although we did not neglect , from time to time , to tell the fat and utterly uncomprehending Zurich philistines that we regarded them as pigs and the German Kaiser as the initiator of the war … |
| 24 | Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families . |
| 25 | Yet , when faced once again with war between north and south , Christian and Moor , they found themselves unable to relate to their brothers in France or Italy , who in turn regarded them as scandalously Islamicised . |
| 26 | The National Consumer Council had the impression that consumers wanting to borrow money felt agencies automatically regarded them as ‘ guilty ’ and that they had to prove their innocence . |
| 27 | The simple fact is that American consumers regarded them as boring , which is why 60 per cent of the crop had always gone into products like bread and biscuits . |
| 28 | Few of these deposits have been found , since the Romans regarded them as booty when in hostile territory , and systematically cleared all likely pools . |
| 29 | He supported Parliament 's measures against blasphemy and the Adultery Act of 1650 , though he regarded them as inadequate and insufficiently close to scripture . |
| 30 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |