Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 2 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 3 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | He would do so , wrote Edward , ‘ out of love for you who are our lord and cousin and our very dear friend ’ , but only when the Scots obeyed him as their liege lord . |
| 5 | Once a virtuous king , whose subjects hailed him as a god , he was killed by his jealous brother Seth . |
| 6 | But it was nice to see all these old geezers with huge noses treating him as if he was a man . |
| 7 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 8 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 9 | The Indians regarded him as a medicine man and his apple-tree enthusiasm , odd clothing and religious devotion — he distributed religious tracts torn in parts for widespread circulation — started many folktales . |
| 10 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 11 | March 28-April 5 : at an extraordinary session of the RFSFR 's Congress of People 's Deputies Yeltsin defeated an attempt by conservatives to unseat him as Chairman . |
| 12 | Reformers see him as protection against the Stalinist wing they still fear ( and many of them hope that maybe , deep down , he is still on their side ) . |
| 13 | Textile workers in Bradford and Brick Lane may regard Saddam as a liberator : the metropolitan middle classes despise him as a thug . |
| 14 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 15 | Instead of barking and attacking him , though , the dogs greeted him as a friend . |
| 16 | In this founding era , de Gaulle gradually gathered soldiers and civilians to his standard , transformed his improvised organization into an alternative state , with its own bureaucracy and armed forces , headed off efforts to replace him as Free France 's leader , and emerged as the symbolic head of all French resisters , inside as well as outside France . |
| 17 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 18 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |
| 19 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 20 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 21 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 22 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 23 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 24 | The initial of the novel 's title promises withheld meaning , and is therefore more appropriate than Pynchon 's original title for the novel ( World on a String ) , but the absurdity of Stencil 's activities disqualifies him as an analyst of a hidden principle in modern history , signalled melodramatically as the ‘ Ultimate Plot which Has No Name ’ . |
| 25 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 26 | Hayling in turn was delighted to meet a man whose friends described him as a ‘ non-conformist ’ compared with most City types , and one who had strong views about the way City investment was dominated by political advantage . |
| 27 | Brought up as a Catholic , he was educated at Stonyhurst , where even one of his few school friends described him as ‘ the ungainliest of boys with a huge head ’ . |
| 28 | Commercial directories listed him as physician in Shifnal . |
| 29 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 30 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |