Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 2 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 3 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 4 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 5 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 6 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 7 | I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers . |
| 8 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 9 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 13 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 15 | Foolishly , I took it as a good sign . |
| 16 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 17 | There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment . |
| 18 | At the time I accepted it as a marvellous background for the all-important hunting , though too young really to appreciate this privileged glimpse of Indian court life . |
| 19 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 20 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 21 | She recognised him as a kindred spirit , with the same happy-go-lucky , questing attitude to life which she herself possessed . |
| 22 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 23 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 24 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 25 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 26 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 27 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 28 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 29 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 30 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |