Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am going to see them as Marie Wilson 's dad . |
| 2 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 3 | After these , Dr Rogers took the assembled company completely by surprise by peeling off his false beard and revealing himself as Alan Abel , hoaxer extraordinary . |
| 4 | In exile in Tripoli , non-reconciled CDR factions were suspected of forming links with Zaghawa rebels in Darfur after the April 1989 coup attempt and seeking Libyan sponsorship for an anti-Habre coalition ; prominent individuals included Adoum Togoi , Moctar Moussa and Rakhis Mananny ( who in a statement on Oct. 7 , 1989 , described himself as CDR secretary-general ) . |
| 5 | On nomination Ivan Cooper ( SDLP ) described himself as Averill Ivan Cooper which had the effect of bringing his name above that of DH Cooper ( Alliance ) on the ballot paper . |
| 6 | In 1622 Swan followed his father to Trinity College , Cambridge , graduating BA in 1626 and MA in 1629 ; he later described himself as BD . |
| 7 | In the first months of 1945 , the German people regarded itself as Hitler 's gain victim . |
| 8 | Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph . |
| 9 | She had never yet addressed him as Sir Joseph , because somehow he did n't look like a sir ; he did n't , in her eyes , fit the title ; he was too young . |
| 10 | Churchill , when frustrated by Eisenhower , grumbled that the president was " weak and stupid " , and he later contemptuously dismissed him as Dulles 's " ventriloquist 's doll " . |
| 11 | The world was to christen him ‘ The Doc ’ but those who followed his bewildering career as it lurched from one club to another will always know him as Dr Strangelove , a man with a healthy appetite for the physiotherapist 's wife . |
| 12 | You 'll know him as Adrian from BBC1 's Bread . |
| 13 | Then Robert Altman cast him as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And Theo . |
| 14 | And then Francis Ford Coppola cast him as Sodapop in The Outsiders , the movie which launched a whole schoolroom of teenagers into proper stardom — Tom Cruise , Emilio Estevez , Matt Dillon and Lowe among them . |
| 15 | The Kingdom of God means the reign of Jesus Christ over those people who acknowledge him as Lord . |
| 16 | But have reverence for Christ in your hearts , and honour him as Lord . |
| 17 | To coincide with this , he relaunched himself as Revd Fr. |
| 18 | We had to entertain a very prim and proper Swiss lady the other day and she insisted on addressing me as Madame Professor Wotherspoon . |
| 19 | ‘ In the meantime I see you 've reverted to addressing me as Penry . |
| 20 | His friends had been in control of Punjab until Mr Ishaq 's people pushed them out after the central government was sacked on April 18th , and Manzoor Watoo , an ally of Mr Ishaq 's , installed himself as Punjab 's chief minister . |
| 21 | The Church , in other words , appropriated a prerogative previously reserved for God , and proceeded to install itself as God 's mouthpiece . |
| 22 | A garish and good-natured bi-monthly magazine , it advertises itself as Britain 's ‘ 5TH BEST SELLING MAGAZINE ! |
| 23 | I should never have accepted you as Catherine 's friend . |
| 24 | After returning from a 30 month tour with UB40 , I believe that Birmingham is establishing itself as Europe 's leading city of the arts and media . |
| 25 | It 's always easier getting rid of a player rather than replacing one as Cavan found to their cost . |
| 26 | She had nothing else quite so effective to wear for the other two acts , but this , for her first entrance , for establishing herself as Countess Maritza , did absolutely everything . |
| 27 | Violette , dark-haired , vivacious , instantly installed herself as Katherine 's loquacious elder sister . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Palestinian news agency WAFA identified him as Hamza Abu Zayd , " an infiltrated agent who had ties with a traitorous party " . |
| 30 | No wonder 2 Chronicles 20:7 describes him as God 's " friend " . |