Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 2 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 3 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 4 | You knew she 'd be there tonight , which is why you needed me as protective cover . |
| 5 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 6 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 7 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 8 | I got your address from your driving licence — you gave it as further proof of your identity . |
| 9 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 10 | Starting from an implicit acceptance of Roman rule they interpreted it as responsible contemporaries , having regard to the needs and interests of the Greek upper class . |
| 11 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 12 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 13 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |
| 14 | And Mr Redwood clashed with MPs when he refused to lift the capping charge , imposed by David Hunt before he replaced him as Welsh Secretary . |
| 15 | Michael Sendivogius was imprisoned by the Emperor Rudolph on pain of yielding his secrets , and it was he who wrote what struck me as fair comment on the Hermetic enterprise in an imaginary complaint of the alchemist to Nature : |