Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |
| 2 | The tiny parrot was a thrilling novelty , and before long every visitor to the Australian colonies was attempting to catch them and bring them back as souvenirs . |
| 3 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 4 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 5 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 6 | I let her share my house because she could only afford a tiny flat of her own , and she bosses me around as if she 's the one with the money . |
| 7 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 8 | He painted in various styles and passed them off as originals making a lot of money in the process . |
| 9 | It just sucked them in as if that wall was made of … mud or something . |
| 10 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 11 | ( Copies of old rugs sometimes include the original date and signature , but there is rarely any attempt to pass them off as originals ; even if there were , other indicators of age would make such deceit obvious . ) |
| 12 | People surged forward , nearly knocking them over as a train came in . |
| 13 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 14 | Therefore , the required relationship exists where one person holds himself out as an expert and gives advice which is intended to be taken seriously and acted upon even though no contractual relationship exists . |
| 15 | It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm . |
| 16 | Sceptical officers thought he was trying to pass himself off as motor racing 's world champ . |
| 17 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 18 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 19 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 20 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 21 | ‘ We 're going to take Sarah , grind her up and send her back as hamburger meat . ’ |
| 22 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 23 | She could n't bear this any longer , this toing and froing of his emotions , tossing her around as if she were in the eye of a tornado . |
| 24 | Independent of separated words , as whole as water , it bore her along as a part of itself , a gold current that connected everything , a secret river running underground , the deep well , the source of life , a flood driving through her , salty breaker on her own beach , streams of words and non-words , voices calling out which were staccato , echoing , which promised bliss . |
| 25 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 26 | booking it in as book twice stage you see . |
| 27 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 28 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 29 | Then , this morning ( I woke up early ) before he came down , I decided to pass it off as something unimportant . |
| 30 | Who were you hoping to pass yourself off as ? ’ |