Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 2 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 3 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 4 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 5 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 6 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 7 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 8 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 9 | Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon . |
| 10 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 11 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 12 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 13 | The first indeed had presented itself as no more than vivid memory , though — if she were honest with herself — she would admit it had arisen from a kind of fear . |
| 14 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 15 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 16 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 17 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 18 | Scotland had re-established itself as an independent nation . |
| 19 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 20 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 21 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 22 | The Shah had imagined it as a modern version of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 , where the rulers of the world could meet and discuss matters of great import . |
| 23 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 24 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 25 | If people had taken me as a sincere , genuine man who was worried , I think we could have avoided all that has happened . |
| 26 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
| 27 | Surely she had taken it as an ill omen ? |
| 28 | With the outbreak of hostilities , it had been too strategically placed for alien ownership , and the king had reclaimed it as a royal demesne . |
| 29 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 30 | I ca n't imagine how we would have reacted if our teacher had identified herself as a practising heterosexual and shared the secrets of her lifestyle . |