Example sentences of "[pers pn] describe [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 2 | I described it as a recipe for throwing Northern Ireland into convulsion . |
| 3 | When she first saw his picture she described him as ‘ an extremely unattractive man with very little , if any , sex appeal ’ . |
| 4 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 5 | He has been determined to destroy her since she described him as ‘ something — sub-human — something not quite to the stage of humanity yet ! ’ |
| 6 | She never called her father ‘ Daddy ’ but Calvin when talking about him , she feared him for she described him as if he was some towering evil giant . |
| 7 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 8 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 9 | She describes it as a ‘ very Scottish book about his childhood , up to his time in Cambridge , including disquisitions on such favourite subjects as film and football ’ . |
| 10 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 11 | Buddhists who 've seen him describe him as a 6ft 4in tall man with big limbs and hands . |
| 12 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 13 | Oh there was this interview with Mick Jagger yeah but like it must have been written about cos they described him as a neanderthal rocker . |
| 14 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |
| 15 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 16 | They describe it as a terrifying ordeal and although it was around two o'clock in the morning , they say a number of people were in the area and could help their search for the rapist . |
| 17 | You know when racing folk talk of the festival they describe it as three days of magic and madness , glory or grief . |
| 18 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 19 | He described them as ‘ associates ’ and tried to visit every store at least once a year ( always staying at budget motels ) . |
| 20 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 21 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 22 | He described him as ‘ a retired civil servant who has made Shakespeare his hobby ’ . |
| 23 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 24 | He described it as ‘ an honour ’ , adding : ‘ I look forward to another wonderful summer 's cricket against one of the top sides in the world . ’ |
| 25 | The film became the American entry , by invitation , into that year 's Venice film festival and the New York Times ' critic , Bosley Crowther , summed up his nation 's embarrassment when he described it as a ‘ brutal picture which caused diplomats to mop their brows — a vicious account of boozing , fighting , pot-smoking , vandalizing and raping done by a gang of sickle riders who are obviously drawn to represent the swastika-wearing Hell 's Angels , one of several disreputable gangs on the west coast . |
| 26 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 27 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 28 | The architect and writer Frank Pennink was right when he described it as ‘ an outstanding course where anyone who can play to his handicap is doing well ’ . |
| 29 | He described it as ‘ the light of life ’ . |
| 30 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |