Example sentences of "he [verb] it [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mr Smith welcomed the ‘ considerable potential ’ of the register , he ruled it out as an alternative to removing the unions ' constitutional influence outright . |
| 2 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 3 | In spite of this , and the fact that it was so large , he recognised it immediately as a coelacanth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He remembered it afterwards as the oddest part of the day . |
| 9 | He introduced it proudly as the only television in the village . |
| 10 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |