Example sentences of "[vb past] describe [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd described her as ‘ an intriguing challenge ’ , she remembered now with a frown . |
| 2 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 3 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 4 | A former wartime lieutenant in the Lithuanian police , Anton Gecas , on July 17 lost a £600,000 libel case against the United Kingdom Scottish Television company which had described him as a war criminal . |
| 5 | Dorothy Allen , his agent , had described him as a ’ quite remarkable ’ fellow and so , personably and articulately , it proved . |
| 6 | He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world . |
| 7 | Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds . |