Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 2 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
| 3 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 4 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 5 | They would only have had you in as a last resort . ’ |
| 6 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 7 | We could have passed you off as the English rose of our collection , although I trust you have n't the natural frigidity of your British sisters . ’ |
| 8 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |