Example sentences of "[prep] him as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 2 | Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry . |
| 3 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 4 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 5 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 6 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 7 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 8 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 9 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 10 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 11 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 12 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 13 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 14 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 15 | No he 's always , Fred , thou you think of him as the policeman do n't you that John Thaw . |
| 16 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 17 | There was a brief scream behind him as the crossbow man , sighting down his weapon , dropped it and clutched at his throat . |
| 18 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 19 | Corbett regained his strength and scrambled to his feet , dragging the dwarf in his grasp with him as the latter 's accomplice slumped wordlessly to his knees . |
| 20 | Wearing Havvie 's ring , a diamond heirloom given to all Blaine brides , laughing , talking and playing with him as the London season began , Sally-Anne persuaded herself that she was as happy as a girl could be , Terry Rourke 's betrayal wiped out and forgotten . |
| 21 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 22 | But the aforementioned medrese was bestowed upon him as the result of the letter of Ferhad Pasa . " |
| 23 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 24 | So , though Geoffrey expressed his anger after the knight Walter had killed one of his kinsmen , he accepted two mills from him as the price of his peace . |
| 25 | The veils of sleep and illusion dropped away and she moved as far away from him as the seatbelt allowed , turning her face to the window . |
| 26 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 27 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 28 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 29 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 30 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |