Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd like to see them remain as houses . |
| 2 | The popular press had laid the blame for the evolution of the larger lout squarely at their feet ; pushing nablabs would allow them to appear as capitalists with a social conscience . |
| 3 | This made me even more of a social outcast since most of the other girls already regarded my disability , my lack of money , my accent and the council estate on which I lived as reasons to ignore me . |
| 4 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 5 | Jack 's agent was already well ensconced at a table with half a dozen people , a couple of whom I recognised as regulars on the pro-am circuit . |
| 6 | And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing . |
| 7 | that you can buy here you can actually get it in Harrods as well , and I use as breadcrumbs . |
| 8 | Yes , I think as adults one thing we have to do is actually trust the wisdom of our children to let us know , to give us the cues to when they need to talk or express their fears in some way erm I mean that 's our duty not to stop them talking , not to stop them asking questions , but to be aware of when they may have fears . |
| 9 | I think as chemists we would be glad to see more and more women come into the subject . |
| 10 | I think as jobs come back , jobs will be found as the economy as a whole picks up . |
| 11 | I have two Clownfish , which I bought as juveniles of a similar size . |
| 12 | In the end I could n't get rid of them , I had two days off when I was ill and I had as holidays to ge to get them sort of settled up you know . |
| 13 | Not that I know all that many people anyway , I suppose ; Jamie is my only real friend , though through him I have met a few people of about my own age I regard as acquaintances . |
| 14 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 15 | To them was given dominion over the world , and all the created beauty of earth was theirs to hold as regents and stewards of God 's kingship . |
| 16 | Was this the arrogance already — keeping them waiting as beings of little importance ? |
| 17 | Well I may not , I may not find it as good , do n't , they always show you clips as trailers of the best bit 's . |
| 18 | Bathrooms she regarded as outhouses . |
| 19 | That 's quite an interesting one , if you consider as students how do you learn erm in general you probably do n't learn that much in lectures because for example we know from experiments that we all have a limited attention span . |
| 20 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 21 | At school , you start off , you integrate with everybody right up to the third year so that , in the third year or the fourth year , your friends or who you know as friends , they might call you a ‘ black bastard ’ . |
| 22 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 23 | They they when when I was younger used to go regular but they did n't go regular you know as years advanced . |
| 24 | I bought a couple of bits for you to give as presents if you 'd like . |
| 25 | He tried to slow her down with gestures which she interpreted as signs of denial , and so she poured it on . |
| 26 | What are the faults , characteristics , misdeeds and imperfections which you use as excuses for not loving yourself ? |
| 27 | Now how can you cope as teachers with a school in which you are almost on call to all the population twenty four hours of the day , which is , it seems to me , what you 're saying ? |
| 28 | Their evenings were frequently marred by rows , started by Constance in response to what she saw as slights on Nicky 's part . |
| 29 | She had not specially noticed the heat before but now she did as droplets of sweat formed themselves on her forehead and her upper lip , as sweat in a single long drop rolled very cold and insinuating down between her breasts . |
| 30 | Well the thing is though people at the top do n't necessarily see the problems that you see as problems |