Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] as [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 2 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 3 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 4 | Thompson was forced to reshuffle his side because of injuries , work commitments and one player missing the team bus and indeed the manager had to name himself as one of the substitutes . |
| 5 | Rome was , I suppose , the capital of the art world , but Rome was essentially an international place where many a Britisher was famous ; where Flaxman , for instance , had established himself as one of the most famous artists in the world . |
| 6 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 7 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |