Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him as [art] [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 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |
| 3 | ‘ They seemed to accept him as a father figure . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 6 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Impressed with Stan 's success rate Dr Panchen offered to employ him as a collector of specimens for the University using a grant from the National Environmental Research Council . |
| 10 | He gestured across the lawn that ran down to a stream and then up again to his own cottage , which Thomas had given him as a wedding present . |
| 11 | And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband ! |
| 12 | But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’ |
| 13 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 14 | Serfaty , who used to dismiss the human rights movement as bourgeois liberalism , then heard from his family that Amnesty International had adopted him as a prisoner of conscience , jailed for the peaceful expression of his political ideas . |
| 15 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 16 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 17 | Chris had reconstructed him as a man . |
| 18 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 19 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 20 | His uncle had entered him as a subscriber onto the Royal Exchange , Manchester , and made him a partner . |
| 21 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 22 | Hauser had struck him as a man who moved with great caution . |
| 23 | Oh , and the victim , Yankel Rosenbaum , a lawyer , had identified him as the killer before he died . |
| 24 | In his twelve years in Paris Modigliani had painted portraits almost exclusively and had lost the ‘ habit of contemplating landscape ’ that had fired him as a boy . |
| 25 | The audience who had loved him as a stage juvenile were themselves growing old , and could not fail to notice the signs of ageing in their idol . |
| 26 | A former wartime lieutenant in the Lithuanian police , Anton Gecas , on July 17 lost a £600,000 libel case against the United Kingdom Scottish Television company which had described him as a war criminal . |