Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She also said that my father sees you as the son he never had . ’ |
| 2 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 3 | Bayonne has known many other military episodes than these ; moreover , you need only to drop one of the two n s from its name to recognize it as the birthplace of that sinister weapon , the bayonet . |
| 4 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 5 | His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College . |
| 6 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 7 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 8 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 9 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 10 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 11 | In their major work on local government finance , Foster and his colleagues describe it as the ‘ mystery of mysteries ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 12 | His admirers applaud him as the ‘ people 's lawyer ’ , the first solicitor in Britain to realize that victims of disasters have more chance of success if they stand and fight collectively . |
| 13 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |