Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 2 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 3 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 4 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 5 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 6 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 7 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 8 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 9 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 10 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 11 | After the success of Carrots and of The Cuckoo Clock the following year , which at once established her as a leading writer for children , she was to write prolifically , sometimes , as in the 1880s and early 1890s , completing seven books in a year . |
| 12 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 13 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 14 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 15 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 16 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 17 | He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 19 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 20 | When last we talked to AT&T 's Bob Kavner about the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition , he really downplayed it as an anti-Microsoft Corp move , pointing out that AT&T does business with Microsoft on a lot of different levels . |
| 21 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |
| 22 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 23 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 24 | They sent her back to get another A-level , then welcomed her as a mature student at the ripe old age of 34 . |
| 25 | Firstly , a couple of birds were scared up out of a nearby bush by his call ; and secondly , there was a detonation so loud that he almost felt it as a physical shockwave . |
| 26 | The Tigers have had a political wing since 1976 but never registered it as a legal party . |
| 27 | He collected the leftovers in his customers ' beer mugs and afterwards re-sold them as a special brew . |
| 28 | I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative . |
| 29 | ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge . |
| 30 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |