Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 2 | There was enough of it to identify her as the Seren … |
| 3 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 4 | The friends , says Morton , took it upon themselves to portray him as a deeply wounded and betrayed husband whose character precluded him from answering back . |
| 5 | For him to endorse her as a ‘ major literary figure ’ sticks in his gullet . |
| 6 | The Captain frowned and murmured something sufficiently incomprehensible for her to take it as a negative . |
| 7 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 8 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |