Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronics specialist or not , he regarded himself primarily as a classicist and– indeed , he was totally fluent in reading and writing both Latin and Greek . |
| 2 | In spite of this , and the fact that it was so large , he recognised it immediately as a coelacanth . |
| 3 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 4 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 5 | He saw him now as a possible Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 6 | Now , he saw her simply as a woman , and a surprisingly beautiful one at that . |
| 7 | He saw it now as a crowding darkness of giant shapes against the merlons of the curtain wall , dominated by the eyeletted walls of the tall hexagonal keep . |
| 8 | Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account . |
| 9 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 10 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 11 | He remembered it afterwards as the oddest part of the day . |
| 12 | He introduced it proudly as the only television in the village . |