Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] him as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | ‘ shall be unenforceable against the other party [ i.e. the investor ] ; and that party shall be entitled to recover any money or other property paid or transferred by him under the agreement , together with compensation for any loss sustained by him as a result of having parted with it . |
| 3 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 4 | After five years on the dole in Easterhouse , Dr Bob Holman ( the estate 's campaigning community worker ) gave me a job working with him as a neighbourhood worker . |
| 5 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 6 | To cut a long story short , he could n't make the grade so he ended up as a pharmacist in the business his father bought for him as a going concern . |
| 7 | Heredia wants to be poetic and hard ; the hardness appears to him as a virtue in the poetic . |
| 8 | A satirical poem alluded to him as a ‘ spiritual dragoon ’ . |
| 9 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 10 | In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries ( including any such action arising out of a contract ) any saving to the injured person which is attributable to his maintenance wholly or partly at public expense in a hospital , nursing home or other institution shall be set off against any income lost by him as a result of his injuries . |
| 11 | The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’ |
| 12 | Daniels ' burning ambition to be a magician came as an 11-year-old tinkering around with a box of magic given to him as a present , and it has paid off . |
| 13 | It turned out he had had the rudiments of classicism flogged into him as a schoolboy . |