Example sentences of "[prep] he as the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 32 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 33 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 34 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 35 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 36 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 37 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 38 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 39 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 40 | Madeleine had no intention of agreeing to this suggestion and , throughout the long journey back in the car , she remained as close to him as the gear lever allowed , and whenever an opportunity presented itself , leant over and kissed his cheek . |
| 41 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 42 | A. N. L. Munby [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint ’ and , no doubt in tribute to the superb quality of his illuminated manuscripts and early printed books , referred to him as the ‘ Ideal Connoisseur ’ . |
| 43 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 44 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 45 | He found a mirror , stuck candles at either side of it and sat , naked , before it , the sweat drying on him as the warm undulation of night air moved into the room . |
| 46 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 47 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 48 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 49 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 50 | The position of women that Engels found when he was writing was therefore seen by him as the product of a moment of history . |
| 51 | Kant held , I believe , that a person is acting autonomously when the principles of his action are chosen by him as the most adequate possible expression of his nature as a free and equal rational being . |
| 52 | Marx 's internationalism paralleled what was identified by him as the leading sector of capitalism , the international . |
| 53 | Kant tried to link the idea of numerically identical particulars with the idea of one space and one time , both conceived by him as the a priori forms of our intuition . |