Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 2 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 3 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 4 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 5 | I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers . |
| 6 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 7 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 11 | Foolishly , I took it as a good sign . |
| 12 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 13 | There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment . |
| 14 | At the time I accepted it as a marvellous background for the all-important hunting , though too young really to appreciate this privileged glimpse of Indian court life . |
| 15 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 16 | But on a hummock by the road a starling-sized bird turned round to reveal a brilliant crimson front which identified it as a long-tailed meadowlark , locally called military starling . |
| 17 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 20 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
| 21 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
| 22 | Pouting seductively , she assumed a pose which presented her as a raving sexpot , as she alluringly slipped the flimsy straps of her silk and lace petticoat from her ivory shoulders . |
| 23 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |
| 24 | Firstly it is clear that whatever contingencies entered into the writing of the Treatise , Keynes himself intended it as a major contribution to economic theory , free-standing and internally valid in all circumstances . |
| 25 | Commander Leonard Burt , who was to be the recipient of Joyce 's confessions many years later , noted this sense of grievance which characterised him as a young man : |
| 26 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 27 | Ramos , a Protestant , was criticized on Feb. 18 by the influential ( Catholic ) Archbishop of Manila , Cardinal Jaime Sin , who attacked him as a former Marcos stooge and expressed his preference for Mitra , thus denting Ramos ' dwindling support within the LDP . |
| 28 | Also on Beinn Bhan , Der Riesenwand was climbed by Roger Webb by the original line , and Robin Clothier by an accidental direct finish ( sorry , partners unknown ) , and Gully of the Gods by Robin Beadle and Martin Moran , who described it as a superb but straightforward grade V. |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Often it was relatives or friends of us permanents , who used it as a temporary place to stay on arrival until they found bedsits or whatever . |