Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 2 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 3 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 4 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 5 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 6 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 9 | Then Robert Altman cast him as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And Theo . |
| 10 | When Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658 , his son , Richard succeeded him as Protector . |
| 11 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 12 | When Jardine died in 1843 , Matheson succeeded him as MP for Ashburton , 1843–7 . |
| 13 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 14 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 15 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 16 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 17 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | He would do so , wrote Edward , ‘ out of love for you who are our lord and cousin and our very dear friend ’ , but only when the Scots obeyed him as their liege lord . |
| 19 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 20 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 21 | Grenville Davey is another case in point with Lisson pushing him as part of a lineage of artists . |
| 22 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 23 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 24 | Scarlatti and Bach reveal his ear for tonal colour , and miniatures as unlike as Beethoven 's Ecossaise in E flat and his own ear-tickling Valse amour confirm him as a charmer of the first order . |
| 25 | Bede welcomed him as a new Josiah , the king of Judah in whose reign a religious reform movement purified the Temple worship , but came to lament the decline , as he saw it , of ecclesiastical standards after the death of Aldfrith , sentiments echoed later by Boniface . |
| 26 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 27 | Once a virtuous king , whose subjects hailed him as a god , he was killed by his jealous brother Seth . |
| 28 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 29 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 30 | But it was nice to see all these old geezers with huge noses treating him as if he was a man . |