Example sentences of "[pron] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 3 | It is known to everyone as the 'Spruce Goose ’ , but what was its official name ? |
| 4 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 5 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 6 | There are also differences in the schools that the children attend , in who recognizes whom as a neighbour , and in the use of village shops and other facilities . |
| 7 | But , supposing we look at the same material from the standpoint of , say the authors of the Upanishads , with whom as a matter of fact I happen to agree . |
| 8 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
| 9 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 10 | I knew my family would never accept me as a boy or man , so I began to withdraw from them . |
| 11 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 12 | ‘ You were n't particularly impressed either with racing or with me as a driver , were you ? ’ |
| 13 | I want you , but I have no intention of giving you a plain gold ring or any other ring that could be held against me as a pledge . |
| 14 | Bonefish Straker had rescued Masquerade , propping her up in his own backyard and refusing to take any money from me as a salvage fee . |
| 15 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |
| 16 | It just struck me as a thought , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | Got sod all to do with me as a S A U. |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think anybody will ever regard me as a BBC insider , ’ he insists . |
| 19 | Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it . |
| 20 | Just remember me as a spirit who brought you good news you richly deserved , no more ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , was he ! ’ they say , and dismiss Mr Wood as a nonentity , and me as a pedant or a poseur . |
| 22 | Mould this lot of nonsense down , because me as a boilermaker had to live forty four years and there ai n't enough people are still working to be able to run the sections . |
| 23 | Here are a couple of suggestions from me as a customer of the high street . |
| 24 | One thing he said struck me as a pointer to watch when spotting for future take-overs : ‘ Like every company we have ever taken over , RHM has had problems at head office . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't treat me as a child ! ’ she cried scornfully , ‘ You know that I love you , and that 's why I 'm being packed off . ’ |
| 26 | For me as a child , Glasgow was its buildings ; the city was physically oppressive in a way that is painfully memorable . |
| 27 | It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose . |
| 28 | He took me as a child to the sights |
| 29 | ‘ Because you still think of me as a child who needs your psychoanalysis ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |