Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 2 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 3 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 4 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 5 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 6 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 7 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |
| 8 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 9 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 10 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 11 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 12 | That Cheetah has the name ‘ Bert ’ engraved on it as a permanent memorial to Bert Mason who has worked unstintingly on bringing the Cheetahs back to life and had worked at 42 AS during the war years . |
| 13 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 14 | Eleven years later I worked with him as a local newspaper reporter when he was a club manager at Ayr United . |
| 15 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 16 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 17 | She thought of him as a drug-running tyrant . |
| 18 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 19 | For one thing , the Hebrews did not divide man up into spirit , mind and body as we tend to do : they thought of him as a single entity , an animated body , a living person . |
| 20 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 21 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 22 | I never thought of you as a proper person before . |
| 23 | She also thought of it as a great household , in which her son could find a favoured place . |
| 24 | In my mood of delight , I thought of it as a beautiful idea for these were roads that go nowhere , nowhere that could interest men . |
| 25 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 29 | Many looked on it as a long-term investment. , with over a quarter planning to hold on to their savings for more than 10 years . |
| 30 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |