Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 2 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 3 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 4 | But the boot room continued to play an invaluable part in this difficult post-Heysel period , helping Kenny Dalglish to establish himself quickly as an outstanding manager with the club 's first championship-FA Cup double in 1986 , and subsequent League titles and another FA Cup final . |
| 5 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 6 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 7 | You may know it better as the Holding Company . ’ |
| 8 | But Clinton 's nationwide image as untrustworthy refuses to fade , while the insurgent Brown is enjoying himself hugely as the slash-and-burn anti-everybody candidate who knows he will never have to fulfil his outlandish promises . |
| 9 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 10 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 11 | When war breaks out , he becomes separated from his relatives , but manages to survive the war by passing himself off as a German soldier of Aryan origin . |
| 12 | Wilkie , who describes himself modestly as a working journalist , then tracked down the poet 's widow . |
| 13 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 14 | After the building was taken the " national salvation committee " installed itself there as a rival government . |
| 15 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 16 | Put her down as a poss . |
| 17 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 18 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 19 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 20 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
| 21 | When photographed with adequate equipment it really does recall the outline of the North American continent ; it is dimly visible with the naked eye in the guise of a slightly brighter section of the Milky Way , and binoculars show it clearly as a large region of diffuse nebulosity . |
| 22 | It contains at least 40 stars , but binoculars show it only as a dim , slightly elliptical object of low surface brightness . |
| 23 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 24 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 25 | Er , well , she she 's not being supported by the commission for year one , and in fact she wo n't be supported for year two either , so the thing that , I I 'm I 'm I put it in as a potential budget |
| 26 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 27 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 28 | The Side , an unlovely , but beloved spot was where the miners met to squat and smoke and gossip : Burton recollected it warmly as a fraternal masculine club , much cherished . |
| 29 | In an attempt to grab the Republicans ' ‘ hot-button ’ issue , the Democrats are now dressing themselves up as the anti-quota party . |
| 30 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |