Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I see her as a potential suicide — the ultimate protest . |
| 3 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 4 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 5 | Sometimes I think it as a transcendent sound which speaks of unknown powers , of cosmic storms and sun winds sighing in the brain . |
| 6 | There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment . |
| 7 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |