Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] as [art] [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 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 4 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 5 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 6 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 7 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |
| 8 | She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used . |
| 9 | He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’ |
| 10 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 11 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 12 | Now that we were adults , she seemed to accept me as a friend . |
| 13 | ‘ They seemed to accept him as a father figure . ’ |
| 14 | They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’ |
| 15 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 16 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 17 | There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit . |
| 18 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 19 | He 'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals . |
| 20 | Only the earl of Lancaster among the nobility and Winchelsey among the prelates were committed to the Ordinances ; others seemed to regard them as a measure , or cover for measures , against Gaveston ; Winchelsey , however , died in 1313 , leaving Lancaster alone to pursue his ambitions in the name of the Ordinances . |
| 21 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 22 | I mean that 's why we went on a Thursday and they 'd changed their as a chap that seems very strange to me ! |
| 23 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |
| 24 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 25 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 26 | ‘ Had you and Mrs Marshall planned to use it as a weekend retreat , perhaps ? |
| 27 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door . |
| 30 | Obviously they could n't be ridden on a mountain , but magazine articles and newspaper features began treating them as a status symbol , and so every airhead on a salary of over £20,000 a year rushed out to buy one and take it up a mountain . |