Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education . |
| 2 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 3 | ‘ My Lords , I have already disclaimed the intention of discussing the scope of the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman but , even if I treat it as a general rule , there are many indications in favour of a liberal attitude towards the exceptions contemplated but not spelt out by Lord Diplock . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |
| 6 | Then he added as Ronni responded with a scowl — do n't say Guido had been right yet again ! — ‘ But , more importantly , I stay with him because I respect him as a seaman . |
| 7 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll do what I can , Changez , because I love you as a brother . ’ |
| 9 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 10 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 11 | Before I took him as a patient , I watched many of his fight films . |
| 12 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 13 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 14 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 15 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 16 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 17 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |