Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pron] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 2 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 3 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 4 | According to Ben , she had waited for him and he had failed her ; never mind that the real fault was not his , or that he had lain at death 's door , or that he had been loath to go to her as a cripple , with nothing to offer but a life of struggle . |
| 5 | Will the Secretary of State please ask the chairman of British Rail to report to him as a matter of urgency on the state of British Rail in Wales an on its financing ? |
| 6 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 7 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 8 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 9 | I want to speak to you as a man of the world . ’ |