Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 2 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 3 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 4 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 5 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 6 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 7 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 8 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 9 | Scarlatti and Bach reveal his ear for tonal colour , and miniatures as unlike as Beethoven 's Ecossaise in E flat and his own ear-tickling Valse amour confirm him as a charmer of the first order . |
| 10 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 11 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 12 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 13 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 14 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 15 | Perhaps one of our music institutions will have the foresight to invite him as a visiting lecturer ? |
| 16 | Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait . |
| 17 | BARRY FRY wants to put Stan Flashman through the wringer by forcing the man dubbed ‘ Fat Stan ’ to account for yesterday 's decision to sack him as Barnet manager before an industrial tribunal . |
| 18 | Gorbachev had apparently asked for the military to support him as Commander-in-Chief . |
| 19 | But the Senior Management Team saw him as a somewhat shy and introverted person and sought to persuade him to be more outward-looking and to be the teacher in the Art department to liaise with the Needlecraft department , a development which they were keen to see . |
| 20 | IT IS a pity that Mikhail Gorbachev survived the move to oust him as leader of the Communist Party last month . |
| 21 | Those in the centre and on the Right regard him as a pragmatist ; those on the Left see him as a right-winger . |
| 22 | The secretary was therefore directed to write to the Duke of Northumberland , asking permission to nominate him as president . |
| 23 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |
| 24 | The other sees him as a collaborator with the forces of oppression . |
| 25 | Among the Dark Elves of Naggaroth he is known as the Reaper , to the Goblins of Red-Axe Pass he is Orcbane , and to the north the Norse know him as Mankiller . |
| 26 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 27 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 28 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 29 | Likewise , Wemyss had few kind things to say about Salisbury , and on more than one occasion denounced him as a ‘ socialist ’ for enacting measures like free education in rural districts and the Workmen 's Compensation Act . |
| 30 | Citrine was thus delighted when , after several men from the industry had refused to serve under him , he persuaded Sir Henry Self to join him as his deputy chairman in charge of administration . |