Example sentences of "with [pers pn] as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 2 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |
| 3 | Read it before your holiday , then pop it in your pocket and take it skiing with you as a handy reference . |
| 4 | You think you 're going to convince me that selling the club would be in my father 's best interests , with you as the kindly soul just waiting to take the burden off his hands . |
| 5 | With you as the Holy Spirit ! |
| 6 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 7 | Eleven years later I worked with him as a local newspaper reporter when he was a club manager at Ayr United . |
| 8 | I used to go with him as a little boy . |
| 9 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 10 | Officials there are believed to be dealing with it as a private matter . |
| 11 | De Gaulle made limited overtures to all sides — offering the FLN an honourable truce ( " paix des braves " ) but refusing to negotiate with it as a political force ; throwing some rhetorical sops to the integrationists but refusing to embrace the cause of integration ; telling the army that outright victory should be its objective , but also saying that no resolution reached against the will of the Algerian people would endure for long . |
| 12 | The Government had played with it as a possible weapon against the King . |
| 13 | With firm reassurance and explanation the pain either disappears ( usually within three months ) or the patient learns to live with it as a minor nuisance . |
| 14 | I used it every day in my writing and after reading the Simontons ' book Getting Well Again , had started toying with it as an anti-cancer technique almost as soon as I left hospital . |