Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 2 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 3 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 4 | By going global before its rivals and by investing heavily in managerial expertise , IBM launched itself as the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 5 | Speaking at the University of Loughborough in October 1986 , the Governor of the Bank of England explained it as the outcome of ‘ deregulation ’ and subsequent ‘ structural changes ’ in financial markets . |
| 6 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 7 | These meetings were largely an opportunity for Harold Wilson to use me as the wall of a fives court against which he banged the ball . |
| 8 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 9 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 10 | Today 's visitor to Paris knows them as the boulevard Saint-Michel and the boulevard Sébastopol running from North to South , with the rue de Rivoli and the rue Saint-Antoine making the East to West traverse . |
| 11 | I heard Miss Temple greet them as the wife and daughters of Mr Brocklehurst . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock presenting himself as the country 's next Prime Minister , won a standing ovation at his Party Conference at Blackpool . |
| 13 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 14 | Emily saw herself as the Elephant 's Child in the Just So Stories , drawn by her ‘ satiable curiosity to partake of all new experience . |
| 15 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 16 | After the death of John Rose [ q.v. ] in 1677 , Gurle succeeded him as the king 's gardener at St James 's , with £320 a year to maintain the garden and another £240 a year as his own salary . |
| 17 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 18 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 19 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 20 | A translation of Cato 's precepts dedicated to Cawarden praised him as the embodiment of ‘ politique wisdom ’ . |
| 21 | Even in the dim light of the pipe , Masklin recognized it as the human in the seat . |
| 22 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 23 | These theories enabled Prussia to present herself as the motor of German unification , a metaphor which connotes both power and a leading role . |
| 24 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |