Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 2 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 3 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 4 | It also gestures towards excusing him , presenting him throughout as a pathetic , historically unaware , exploited and manipulated individual . |
| 5 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 6 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 7 | It 's a well-founded faith he has developed since Michelin this year singled him out as the only French chef worthy of upgrading to the coveted three-star accolade . |
| 8 | Whatever Gould 's personal opinion of Gilbert , or whatever his error , his qualifications as a naturalist were undisputed , and singled him out as the ideal candidate for sharing Gould 's exploration . |
| 9 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 10 | The subtler of the recent readings of the Shipman 's Tale keeps the merchant in the position of target figure by treating him not as a realistic character , but as a functional one : a figure representing the interplay of more abstract themes and factors affecting human life . |
| 11 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 12 | In fact , Michael had never talked to his son about politics , labelling him good-naturedly as an idle playboy . |
| 13 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 14 | The monastery of the Poor Clares knew him well as a loyal altar server after his mother 's early death . |
| 15 | Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities . |
| 16 | The exigent journalist Lynn Barber , in her collection of interviews Mostly Men , singles him out as the sole male representative of a type she describes as ‘ nice , straightforward , feet on the ground ’ . |
| 17 | He saw him now as a possible Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 18 | He was a hero to the people who saw him only as a little waif , when actually he was a pudding of hatred . ’ |
| 19 | Naked except for the band round his belly ; yet something about him marked him immediately as a singular character . |
| 20 | From his origins in Protestant East Belfast , his exhilarating ball control and deceptive change of pace marked him out as a unique prospect in an area accustomed to discovering football talent . |
| 21 | ‘ Take your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac , and go to the land of Moriah , and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you . ’ |
| 22 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 23 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 24 | Ronald Reagan has made a career out of being underestimated and the same mistake was made in 1980 when his critics wrote him off as an amiable , ex-movie actor ill-qualified for the presidency . |
| 25 | The Socialist Minister has not missed an opportunity to remind those who regard him only as a tireless champion of culture that he is a qualified professor of international law . |
| 26 | We see him now as a golden sun but what will happen to him as the day dies and the sun begins to set ? |
| 27 | But Bill Alexander 's powerful new production of The Duchess of Malfi at The Swan treats him not as a lurid Jacobean sensationalist but as a sombre , death-haunted melancholic . |
| 28 | Then my buddy pointed him out as the crazy maniac making the calls . |