Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 2 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 3 | Next day a violent storm of criticism and derision was let loose in the press , while the long review by Apollinaire in L'Intransïgeant served to establish him as the champion of the group . |
| 4 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 5 | The Cabinet in turn chose to treat it as the beginning of the General Strike . |
| 6 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 8 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 9 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 10 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 11 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 12 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 13 | Oh , and the victim , Yankel Rosenbaum , a lawyer , had identified him as the killer before he died . |
| 14 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 15 | By 1959 , it had established itself as the pop sound and a fledgling British rock culture was throwing up performers such as Cliff Richard as challengers to Elvis . |