Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 2 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 3 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 4 | Belle 's sister Lil went with her as a companion for the long journey . |
| 5 | Fred Archer referred to him as a ‘ pretty ’ jockey . |
| 6 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 7 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 8 | Clive works for them as a delivery skipper . |
| 9 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 10 | Mark poses alongside them as a theatrically seedy rock-hack for the all-seeing lens of Kevin Cummins . |
| 11 | He is dressed in expensive clothing and drives a new car : Judy Gomez refers to him as a pimp , thus indicating his involvement in sexual as well as social exploitation . |