Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 2 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 3 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 4 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 5 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 6 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 7 | Bede welcomed him as a new Josiah , the king of Judah in whose reign a religious reform movement purified the Temple worship , but came to lament the decline , as he saw it , of ecclesiastical standards after the death of Aldfrith , sentiments echoed later by Boniface . |
| 8 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 9 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 10 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 11 | The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT . |
| 12 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 13 | At present the museum 's director Alessandra Mottola Molfino envisages it as a huge visual archive rather than a collection of objects . |
| 14 | In 1874 the Bishop of Beverley adopted it as a public institution and the Bishops of England passed a resolution to recognise St. John 's Institution as a Catholic Institution for England and to assist in the cost of its foundation . |
| 15 | To justify this and Stalin presents it as a revolutionary me measure , as a shift to the left , as the creation of socialism , to justify it er Stalin presents the argument that the whole world is moving forward to a new stage on the road to socialism , it 's all a lot of nonsense but the ideological needs of the regime in Russia are determining the advice which is being given to er various communist parties . |
| 16 | Barnes and Seldon deploy it as a classic example of Macmillanesque subtlety in handling colleagues . |
| 17 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 18 | Mrs Gibson described it as a living history book . |
| 19 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 20 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 21 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 22 | As well , Hi 's reflections on Carlotta establish her as a real woman as well as an ideal of love and beauty . |
| 23 | Jesus described it as a spiritual rebirth . |
| 24 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 25 | But it was their home … inviting Guy Sterne to use it as a convenient guest-house was like flinging open the drawbridge to the enemy … |
| 26 | When Arkesilas IV had succeeded Battos IV is unknown , but Pindar addresses him as a young man in 462 . |
| 27 | Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as |
| 28 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 29 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 30 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |