Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 2 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 3 | The obverse of his strength as party leader in the peculiar circumstances of British politics today has been his inability to present himself as a national leader . |
| 4 | And she would spear a piece of chicken and carry it high in the air towards that great black hole of a mouth and , still talking about her therapy , her plans for the future , his inability to understand her as a woman , his crude , male-orientated sexuality , she would munch , munch , munch … |
| 5 | His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College . |
| 6 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 7 | BOY GEORGE has revealed that he and his lover see themselves as a married couple . |
| 8 | The successful Peronist in San Luis , incumbent governor Alberto Rodríguez Saa , announced his intention to present himself as a candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 9 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 10 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 11 | In this extract the senior devil instructs his nephew to use them as a tactic in subverting the progress of the new believer : |
| 12 | His father saw it as an act of treachery , his mother silently agreed with everyone as she saw their separate points of view . |
| 13 | His father described himself as a lawyer , although , like most of the parents and many of the staff of the Wimbledon Islamic Independent School ( Boys ' Day ) , Robert suspected he was not being entirely open about his status . |
| 14 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 15 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 16 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 17 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |
| 18 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 19 | It is characteristic of Milton to wish his audience to see him as a writer familiar with highly regarded literary writing and able to employ it to more serious purpose than it had been previously . |
| 20 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 21 | Now he was happy enough to let Rickards impose on his solitude to use him as a sounding board . |
| 22 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 23 | In their major work on local government finance , Foster and his colleagues describe it as the ‘ mystery of mysteries ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 24 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 25 | His admirers applaud him as the ‘ people 's lawyer ’ , the first solicitor in Britain to realize that victims of disasters have more chance of success if they stand and fight collectively . |