Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 3 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 4 | He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’ |
| 5 | He played no part in the newly founded Royal Society or the College of Physicians , although at this time he began to describe himself as an ‘ MD ’ . |
| 6 | He started to distinguish himself as an athlete of no mean promise and , understandably , invitations to meetings out of the area were forthcoming . |
| 7 | Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled . |
| 8 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 9 | That made McIllvanney a gold-plated pimp , though he preferred to describe himself as a ‘ leisure-agent ’ ; however , he usually had the grace to smile when he used that label . |
| 10 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 11 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
| 12 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 13 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 14 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 15 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 16 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 17 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 18 | In his deliberations whether to sell or keep on the mill as a holiday home he had seen it as a refuge from London , eccentric and remote , providing a temporary escape from the demands of his job and the pressures of success . |
| 19 | Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold . |
| 20 | Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse . |
| 21 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 22 | He had used it as a conveyance . |
| 23 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 24 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 25 | He had signed himself as a signature on the ark . |
| 26 | He had chosen it as a desperate , populist issue , yet the audience was even cooler than the unenthusiastic crowds the embattled Democrat had faced elsewhere . |
| 27 | One thing he said struck me as a pointer to watch when spotting for future take-overs : ‘ Like every company we have ever taken over , RHM has had problems at head office . ’ |
| 28 | She 'd rather he continued seeing her as a thief than that . |
| 29 | He intended to regard it as an incident of the utmost gravity . |