Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 2 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 4 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 5 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 6 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 7 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 8 | Some people in publishing like to think of theirs as a glamorous medium , so they sometimes copy the Hollywood glitter , They certainly did so last week , when the Periodical Publishers Association handed out its awards for 1983 . |
| 9 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 10 | Teachers definitely think of you as a good athlete if you 're black . |
| 11 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 12 | I never thought of you as a proper person before . |
| 13 | I think of you as a special customer . ’ |
| 14 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 15 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |
| 16 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 17 | Even a slight anecdote of her as a sixteen-year-old girl guide being seduced in a tent by a boy scout is illustrated . |
| 18 | He 'd become more aware of her as an attractive girl with a very feminine figure that the fashionable flat-chested dress styles could not conceal . |
| 19 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 20 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 21 | She had tales to tell of him as a small boy , as a young man . |
| 22 | One was always conscious of him as a great Christian ; only later did you become conscious of his denominational affiliation . |
| 23 | At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics . |
| 24 | Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity . |
| 25 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 26 | She thought of him as a drug-running tyrant . |
| 27 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 28 | His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender . |
| 29 | His fellow-undergraduates thought of him as a gangly youth with brown hair . |
| 30 | For one thing , the Hebrews did not divide man up into spirit , mind and body as we tend to do : they thought of him as a single entity , an animated body , a living person . |