Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 2 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 3 | Having seen some of what went on with secondary picketing in the 1970s , I regard it as the unacceptable face of socialism . |
| 4 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 5 | This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ . |
| 6 | In fact , as things stand I see it as the only course for you to take … |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 8 | I see it as the ultimate gesture . ’ |
| 9 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 10 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 11 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |
| 12 | That the calf is afraid of death , let alone its fleeing it as the greatest of evils , seems misleadingly to ascribe to it a self-conscious grasp of death and evil , possible only of beings capable of language . |
| 13 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 14 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 15 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 16 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 17 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 18 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 19 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 20 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 21 | You see yourself as the mysterious contessa in flowing black veil and wheelchair , delicate white hand with long red nails offered up for kissing . ) |
| 22 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 23 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 24 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |
| 25 | Heavenly father , we praise you as the living God and thank you that you have called us to look to the growth of your church in this parish ; we thank you for those who have worked to help plan the proposed church building ; we especially pray for John Taylor , our architect , and the city council planners and planning committee . |
| 26 | ‘ We see ourself as the biggest club in Britain , with a stadium to match , and we feel we are among the top five clubs in Europe . |
| 27 | News of the resignation was greeted with jubilation by the protesters , many of whom hailed it as the true start of Bulgaria 's revolution against communist rule . |
| 28 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 29 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 30 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |