Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] as [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some people said Wolsey hired him as a defence against other wizards and warlocks . |
| 5 | Dracula 's Haus — & Hofmusik revealed itself as a work of pleasing surfaces , but no great depth or impact . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | Eva took it as a sign that she was going to get better . |
| 10 | By going global before its rivals and by investing heavily in managerial expertise , IBM launched itself as the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 13 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 14 | On 8 November Mr Jones of Stamford offered himself as a pupil , as did Mr Bloxam of Alcester . |
| 15 | Doctor Maingay regarded herself as a resource for others . |
| 16 | Boris Chicherin joined him as a Professor of Law in 1861 . |
| 17 | During the '70s , Dave ‘ Clem ’ Clempson established himself as a guitarist-to-watch , toting a ‘ 58 Les Paul goldtop in such bands as Jon Hiseman 's Colosseum , Humble Pie and The Jack Bruce Band . |
| 18 | In 1793 Bellingham established himself as a tradesman in Oxford Street but was gazetted bankrupt in 1794 . |
| 19 | Fiona said anxiously , ‘ But , Tremayne , Sam meant it as a joke . ’ |
| 20 | Miranda remembered howling as a twelve-year-old because Adam treated her as a child . |
| 21 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 22 | Green Party activist Sara Parkin described it as a step towards " turning the green vision of an ecologically sustainable society into a practical reality " . |
| 23 | This is not to be viewed as condescending : Roderick regarded himself as a student of the subject and said so on many occasions during the writing of the new book . |
| 24 | Yggdrasil perceived itself as a thinking universe . |
| 25 | Emily saw herself as the Elephant 's Child in the Just So Stories , drawn by her ‘ satiable curiosity to partake of all new experience . |
| 26 | Neil Gunn saw it as a manifestation of ‘ the only spirit which can truly build and enrich social life ’ . |
| 27 | He broke off and ate a piece of Mint Crisp from out of the platform chocolate machine Kevin offered him as a tribute to his prowess . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Because of the security of such a city the Emperor Honorius chose it as a refuge capital for the western part of the Roman Empire . |
| 30 | I think Malcolm saw it as a way of getting himself established , starting a shop and making a reputation . |