Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [pron] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 2 | He should face justice , and he should face it as an example to the men of violence on both sides . |
| 3 | He started off by taking Jack Hylton — an old friend of mine and a leading member of the board of TWW — to meet some of the independent television proprietors , and at that stage he suggested to Hylton that he might use me as an intermediary . |
| 4 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 5 | The right hon. Member for Worcester has said in characteristically self-deprecating phrases that he does not have a great desire to be remembered but I am sure that , given his record , he will take it as an accolade to be thought of , in H. L. Mencken 's happy phrase , as a politician who could sit on the fence and have both ears to the ground at the same time . |