Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 2 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 3 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 4 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 5 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 6 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 7 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 8 | Bede welcomed him as a new Josiah , the king of Judah in whose reign a religious reform movement purified the Temple worship , but came to lament the decline , as he saw it , of ecclesiastical standards after the death of Aldfrith , sentiments echoed later by Boniface . |
| 9 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 10 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 11 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 12 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 13 | The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT . |
| 14 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 15 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 16 | In 1874 the Bishop of Beverley adopted it as a public institution and the Bishops of England passed a resolution to recognise St. John 's Institution as a Catholic Institution for England and to assist in the cost of its foundation . |
| 17 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 18 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 19 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 20 | Mrs Gibson described it as a living history book . |
| 21 | The outskirts of her home town excited her as a magical cavern will a child . |
| 22 | The accounts submitted to the Revenue included these costs as a deduction and our computations claimed them as a legitimate expense . |
| 23 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 24 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 25 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 26 | The exclamation escaped her as a startled squeak . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 28 | Jesus described it as a spiritual rebirth . |
| 29 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 30 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |