Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 2 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 3 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 4 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 5 | or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . " |
| 6 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 7 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 8 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 10 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 11 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 12 | It occurred to him as a possibility , for instance , that , prior to being ‘ kept alive ’ for ten days , Dobson might first have been murdered . |
| 13 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 14 | Every case of sickness or misfortune is claimed by him as a judgement against the upstarts who dare to challenge the legitimacy of his rule . |
| 15 | He does n't even think of me as a woman . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She says she can think of me as a husband seven years after Troy 's disappearance . ’ |
| 17 | Since her marriage there had been no communication with her former employer , not even at Christmas , and she could never think of her as a sister-in-law . |
| 18 | You did n't think of her as a girl somehow . |
| 19 | They do not think of him as a sacrifice offered to God . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll always think of him as a friend , ’ she thought . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I do n't think of it as a crusade , more a cleansing operation . |
| 22 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 23 | But do n't think of it as a miniature . |
| 24 | Do n't think of it as a cage ; it 's your home , so learn to love it . " |
| 25 | It includes 28 fonts and you can think of it as a sort of ATM that does work with FX80 ( and other ) printers and WordPerfect 5.1 . |
| 26 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 27 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ Besides , it comes with a condition attached , so do n't think of it as a gift . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 30 | He thinks of it as a link in ‘ the great chain of Being ’ , a medieval idea which survived into the eighteenth century ( see A. O. Lovejoy 's book of the same title ) . |