Example sentences of "[pron] as a [noun sg] " 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 Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it .
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties .
8 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 .
9 I knew my family would never accept me as a boy or man , so I began to withdraw from them .
10 My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared .
11 ‘ You were n't particularly impressed either with racing or with me as a driver , were you ? ’
12 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 .
13 Bonefish Straker had rescued Masquerade , propping her up in his own backyard and refusing to take any money from me as a salvage fee .
14 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 .
15 It just struck me as a thought , that 's all . ’
16 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 .
17 Just remember me as a spirit who brought you good news you richly deserved , no more ! ’
18 ‘ Oh , was he ! ’ they say , and dismiss Mr Wood as a nonentity , and me as a pedant or a poseur .
19 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 .
20 Here are a couple of suggestions from me as a customer of the high street .
21 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 . ’
22 ‘ 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 . ’
23 For me as a child , Glasgow was its buildings ; the city was physically oppressive in a way that is painfully memorable .
24 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 .
25 He took me as a child to the sights
26 ‘ Because you still think of me as a child who needs your psychoanalysis ? ’
27 ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’
28 Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child .
29 that held me as a child , when home from term
30 How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple .
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