Example sentences of "[v-ing] him as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 2 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 3 | A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released . |
| 4 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 5 | They introduced Mr Parretti to CLBN in 1987 , presenting him as a potential investor in their company . |
| 6 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 7 | They still said that he talked much too big , but they did stop treating him as a scruffy nonentity . |
| 8 | A white professor has apologised to one of his black lecturers ( who happens to be on the executive of the ANC ) for ‘ treating him as an academic lightweight ’ . |
| 9 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 10 | At the first performance Vivienne was terrified by Sweeney , seeing him as a homicidal madman . |
| 11 | On June 15 the military expressed their support for Gen. Chaovalit by appointing him as a special adviser to the Internal Security Command , the Supreme Command , and the combined armed forces . |
| 12 | In a 1985 case , however , the High Court granted an injunction against a health authority which was unwilling to continue employing the plaintiff , despite regarding him as a competent worker , because of his personality clash with a more senior colleague . |
| 13 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 14 | However , although his bust shares a place of honour in the apse of Westminster Abbey with that of Darwin , commemorating him as a great co-pioneer of rational science , elsewhere his memory is largely eclipsed perhaps because of the premature breadth of that dream . |
| 15 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 16 | It is closely associated with Kant 's assertion that there are ways of treating a man which are inconsistent with recognising him as a full member of the community so that such treatment is profoundly unjust . |