Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osborne too felt his viola was mightier than the machine-guns : he used it as his only protection , making a conscious decision not to wear a flak jacket . |
| 2 | He — um — he appointed you as his special envoy , you see — gave you carte blanche as far as time was concerned ; in fact he insisted that your entire stay here from day one should be regarded as being on company business . ’ |
| 3 | Middlemass breathed it as his native air . |
| 4 | No wonder manager Ian Porterfield hailed him as his greatest signing . |
| 5 | She had worked for the Underground movement , involved in forging passports and papers for people trying to escape across the Channel ; had been discovered but saved from death by a German , who had raped her and kept her as his own prisoner . |
| 6 | He saw it as his main chance to regain some respect . |
| 7 | The Mastermind television quiz game turned its attention to Formula 1 motor racing when Michael Swartz took it as his specialised subject recently . |