Example sentences of "that he [was/were] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 2 | It means that he was acting as the Messiah , for ‘ to do good ’ is a Messianic action . |
| 3 | Nor do I think that Mr. O'Brien thought for a moment that he was acting as the bank 's agent . |
| 4 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 5 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |