Example sentences of "he [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 2 | Never went pro , but I used to put him on as part of my act . |
| 3 | No but they thought he was far too good for him , put him on as trainee manager then they sacked him ! |
| 4 | slew him in as a lifer at San Quentin . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless you 'd rather I brought him in as chaperon ? |
| 6 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 7 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 8 | Urian cut him down as if he were a child . |
| 9 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 10 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |
| 11 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 12 | Chase turned out to be a tuba player , of all things , though I would have put him down as backing vocals for The Communards on appearances alone . |
| 13 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
| 14 | His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips . |
| 15 | I put him down as a schoolboy . |
| 16 | The wily Queen , knowing that her position was totally dependent on Rome , handed him over as a prisoner , giving her ally more cause for gratitude and reward . |
| 17 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 18 | In the same fashion , if the witch-doctor offers advice which turns out to be wrong , you write him off as a quack and change your doctor . |
| 19 | Ronald Reagan has made a career out of being underestimated and the same mistake was made in 1980 when his critics wrote him off as an amiable , ex-movie actor ill-qualified for the presidency . |
| 20 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 21 | It might be interesting ; he was obviously intelligent and well-educated , and the fact that both Dora and Iris had written him off as a fortune-hunter caused her no particular misgivings . |
| 22 | STEVE Cram launches his new 5,000 metres career on the roads of Aberdeen in the mood to confound the critics who have written him off as a has-been . |
| 23 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 24 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed . |
| 25 | You might raise him up as a devil . ’ |
| 26 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 27 | His uncle John , 72 , who brought him up as a son and taught him to play the guitar , has died of lung cancer . |
| 28 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 29 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 30 | Philip Burton 's early life had been calculated to bring him up as ‘ a spotless youth ’ . |