Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His last book , Antonietta , published in 1991 , tells the story of a Stradivarius violin , and Hersey inserted himself as a character . |
| 2 | The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs . |
| 3 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 4 | Not many people know that Nick Faldo fancies himself as a comedian and a practical joker . |
| 5 | But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity : |
| 6 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 7 | His personal fondness for the sayings of the Reverend Swaggart marked him as a man somewhat out of step with much of the rest of the world ; a view reinforced by his apparent keenness on the suggestion of a freebooting American marine that the kingdom become a dumping-ground for spent atomic waste and noxious chemicals . |
| 8 | Some people said Wolsey hired him as a defence against other wizards and warlocks . |
| 9 | Dracula 's Haus — & Hofmusik revealed itself as a work of pleasing surfaces , but no great depth or impact . |
| 10 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 11 | WordStar used it as a base from which to build WordStar for Windows , a process that has continued with this latest release , which adds Windows 3.1 compliance amongst other things . |
| 12 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 13 | The style of the First Book of Maccabees betrays itself as a translation from a Hebrew text : St Jerome apparently still saw the Hebrew original ( Div . |
| 14 | The prologue promises a fierce tale of ‘ orgulous princes ’ , ‘ warlike fraughage ’ , and ‘ the chance of war ’ ; but Troilus introduces himself as a character , ‘ weaker than a woman 's tear ’ . |
| 15 | The Second Book of Maccabees presents itself as a summary of a work in five books composed by Jason of Cyrene , otherwise unknown ( 2.19–28 ) . |
| 16 | Eva took it as a sign that she was going to get better . |
| 17 | Why had Heather chosen him as a companion ? |
| 18 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 19 | What do you think about Faye using you as a model ? ’ |
| 20 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 21 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 22 | On 8 November Mr Jones of Stamford offered himself as a pupil , as did Mr Bloxam of Alcester . |
| 23 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 24 | Feeling a little dizzy at being caught in the whirlwind of Faye 's enthusiasm , and wondering if she was just imagining a slightly brittle , overwrought quality to it this morning , Belinda listened to several more of Faye 's ideas for ‘ Getting Tom to notice you as a woman ’ . |
| 25 | His election on three separate occasions as MP for Middlesex in 1768–69 , and the repeated refusals of the House of Commons to admit him as a member , did much to stimulate in London the current of political radicalism which was later to run so strongly there . |
| 26 | For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ? |
| 27 | ‘ Jason excites me as a player just as much as Gregory or Alex Murphy did when they where 18year-olds , ’ said Wigan chairman Jack Robinson . |
| 28 | But Fromm interprets it as a conflict between matriarchy and patriarchy ; Jung sees it as a story of ethical conflict between laziness and duty ; and Ferenczi argues that Oedipus himself is a phallic symbol since his name means literally ‘ swollen-foot ’ . |
| 29 | Lear imposes himself as a burden on his two remaining daughters by expecting them how to look after him and his retinue in his old age . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |