Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 2 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | By going global before its rivals and by investing heavily in managerial expertise , IBM launched itself as the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 10 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I heard Miss Temple greet them as the wife and daughters of Mr Brocklehurst . |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock presenting himself as the country 's next Prime Minister , won a standing ovation at his Party Conference at Blackpool . |
| 14 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 15 | Emily saw herself as the Elephant 's Child in the Just So Stories , drawn by her ‘ satiable curiosity to partake of all new experience . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 19 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 22 | A translation of Cato 's precepts dedicated to Cawarden praised him as the embodiment of ‘ politique wisdom ’ . |
| 23 | Even in the dim light of the pipe , Masklin recognized it as the human in the seat . |
| 24 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 25 | These theories enabled Prussia to present herself as the motor of German unification , a metaphor which connotes both power and a leading role . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Two men had been arrested in Liverpool and their informer in Belfast named them as the assassins . |