Example sentences of "[vb infin] him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says modestly that he ‘ got into rather an idle way ’ , but Wordsworth 's way of ‘ idling ’ offers little comfort to those who might consider him as a precedent for their own incapacity . |
| 2 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 3 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 4 | Housman might not readily recognise him as a Shropshire Lad . |
| 5 | His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did . |
| 6 | He is not ranked by the WBA either but that group would recognise him as champion . |
| 7 | Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him . |
| 8 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 10 | You 'll know him as Adrian from BBC1 's Bread . |
| 11 | The world was to christen him ‘ The Doc ’ but those who followed his bewildering career as it lurched from one club to another will always know him as Dr Strangelove , a man with a healthy appetite for the physiotherapist 's wife . |
| 12 | Colin Webley ( 36 ) is another newcomer as far as playing is concerned , although many of you will know him as the chap who did sterling work in the tea hut last season . |
| 13 | At the beginning of Mary 's reign Sir Ralph Sadler was not saved from ejection from the office of Master of the Great Wardrobe ; yet his life tenure did preserve him as Keeper of the Hanaper in Chancery from 1535 until 1587 . |
| 14 | You can introduce him as the guy you and I appointed some months back to work with Sanders on the preparation of the Business Plan . |
| 15 | While he returned from that campaign with greater maturity , even his best friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition . |
| 16 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 17 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 18 | Buddhists who 've seen him describe him as a 6ft 4in tall man with big limbs and hands . |
| 19 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 20 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 21 | At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency . |
| 22 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
| 23 | Of those who might succeed him as leader , at least two men and one woman — Constantine Simitis , Gerasimos Arsenis and Vasso Papandreou ( no relation ) — could probably do for Greece 's left what Michel Rocard has proposed to do for France 's . |
| 24 | When Evan Hopkins Turner retires next July , Robert P. Bergman will succeed him as director in Cleveland . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Mahathir on Dec. 28 , 1989 , advised UMNO ( Baru ) that Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba should succeed him as leader of the party and of the government . |
| 26 | So it was when , in the spring of 1947 , he announced that he would shortly present to the Cortes the draft of a law which would regulate the question of who would succeed him as Head of State and , equally important , when this event would take place . |
| 27 | On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch . |
| 28 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 29 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 30 | Good afternoon , Celtic say that Lou Macari is expected in Scotland tomorrow to finalise the deal that will confirm him as their new manager . |