Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the work that I examined and dealt with , and on the Tuesday , I was saluting him as an inspector . |
| 2 | If I was interviewing you as an , as a member of the institution as a , a local spokesman |
| 3 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 4 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 5 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 6 | She was carrying him as a baby along a valley devoid of vegetation and with high hills on each side . |
| 7 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 8 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 9 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 10 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 11 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 13 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 14 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |
| 15 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |