Example sentences of "[verb] me as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 2 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 3 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 4 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 5 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 6 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 7 | ‘ Could you ever see me as a full-time mother ? ’ |
| 8 | What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief . |
| 9 | ‘ It was my father who encouraged me as a high jumper . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 11 | I do n't think it 'd happen , they did n't employ me as a scripted puppet . |
| 12 | What interests me as a social anthropologist is not just that human beings behave in a lot of different unexpected ways but that the patterning of these differences of behaviour also varies ; and it is the continuities and the variations in these underlying patterns which are the real focus of my interest . |
| 13 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 14 | I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him . |
| 15 | I remember removing the name-tapes of the former wearers ( who had left the school ) with a savage feeling that these people had to be got rid of , otherwise they would possess me as a living person is possessed by a ghost . |
| 16 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 17 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
| 18 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 19 | Returning to the advice that Leo Amery gave me as a young man , I remember reading widely from the great autobiographies and biographies that he recommended , including the works of Lord Milner . |
| 20 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 21 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 22 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 23 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 24 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 25 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
| 26 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 27 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 28 | That sense of ‘ bitter-sweet ’ ( the title , perhaps not incidentally , of one of Coward 's greatest stage successes ) strikes me as a crucial component of the structure of feeling I am interested in here . |
| 29 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 30 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |