Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 2 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 3 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 5 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 6 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 7 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 8 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 9 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 10 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 11 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 12 | ‘ He will remain captain , and while other people will inevitably paint him as a so-called bad boy , that does n't wash with me . |
| 13 | Most people neither know nor care about tensions and conflicts within minorities , so when a recognisable spokesman ( and it is always a man ) emerges , they unquestioningly accept him as a legitimate representative . |
| 14 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 15 | These need to be grasped if we are to understand him — and so to make use of him , rather than simply dismissing him as an embittered elitist pessimist . |
| 16 | Some almost see him as a non-playing captain . |
| 17 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |