Example sentences of "[vb past] me as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
2 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
3 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
4 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
5 | ‘ It was my father who encouraged me as a high jumper . |
6 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
7 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
8 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
9 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
10 | Many women admired my strength and the men , slightly awed , treated me as an honorary male . |
11 | Returning to the advice that Leo Amery gave me as a young man , I remember reading widely from the great autobiographies and biographies that he recommended , including the works of Lord Milner . |
12 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
13 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
14 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
15 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
16 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
17 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
18 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
19 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
20 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
21 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |