Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 2 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 3 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 4 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 5 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 6 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 7 | He regarded it as a testable conjecture . |
| 8 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 9 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 10 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 11 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 12 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 13 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 14 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 15 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 16 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 17 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 18 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 19 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 20 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 21 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 22 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 23 | He fancied himself as a new Alexander and said he wanted to learn more about the Renaissance in the neighbouring country , so he invaded Italy . |
| 24 | He remembers him as a melancholy figure . |
| 25 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 26 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
| 27 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 28 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
| 29 | He took it as a personal insult . |
| 30 | He took it as a personal reproach . |