Example sentences of "[prep] we as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 2 | Thirdly , it involved saying that ‘ the general principles of the constitution ( as for example the right to personal liberty , or the right of public meeting ) are with us as the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts ’ . |
| 3 | The wind and rain swept upon us as the ferry , our fellow passengers and all associations with warmth , comfort and civilisation disappeared into the greyness . |
| 4 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 5 | A fair summary of the whole might be ‘ the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God , revealed in Jesus ’ teaching and example , and set before us as the goal which we are called to realise' . |
| 6 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 7 | If it were as close to us as the Orion Nebula , it would cast shadows . |
| 8 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 9 | Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals . |
| 10 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 11 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 12 | It was agreed between us as the most suitable form of address . ’ |
| 13 | The sound moved through us as the gunman 's shoulder and body jerked with the recoil of the rifle , the small boy 's face alert , fixated . |
| 14 | ‘ And Probyn is recognised by us as the world 's best tighthead prop so no argument there . |