Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 2 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 3 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 4 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 5 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 6 | Now Paris may well be the inspiration of poets and troubadours but I do n't remember it as the fabled Athens of the West . |
| 7 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
| 8 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 9 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 10 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 11 | We should replace them as the Labour Party 's main op opponents . |
| 12 | So either one can not imagine postal activity in isolation , because it is conceptually bound up with so much else , or one can imagine it as the futile activity of a deluded loner . |
| 13 | So if you ever start scratching in Casualty do n't dismiss it as the odd gnat-bite . |