Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 4 | He started to distinguish himself as an athlete of no mean promise and , understandably , invitations to meetings out of the area were forthcoming . |
| 5 | Her mother-in-law 's days were spent at her embroidery or visiting friends whom Tamar felt despised her as an outsider . |
| 6 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 7 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 8 | The great bulk of Liberal and Marxist writing about war had presented it as an activity which no radical could support and which all must fight to prevent . |
| 9 | He was in uniform , very much in the situation in which Lewis had found himself as an undergraduate at Univ . |
| 10 | At Brighton last week Mr Kinnock had portrayed her as an anachronism as the Nineties dawned , ‘ out of step , out of touch , out of date ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ When they had read the publicity material offering help for the recently bereaved they had read it as an opportunity to be out and meet people again . |
| 12 | He intended to regard it as an incident of the utmost gravity . |