Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] him as " in BNC.

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1 I honour him as a ‘ bridge ’ between two ancient cultures — East and West — at a time when such positive influences are much needed .
2 I accept him as heir of his father after me to Clan Gillian . ’
3 ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person .
4 I like him as a fellow .
5 And er I b I remember him as if it were yesterday .
6 We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’
7 Then he added as Ronni responded with a scowl — do n't say Guido had been right yet again ! — ‘ But , more importantly , I stay with him because I respect him as a seaman .
8 For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’
9 The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’
10 In view of the fact that , like you , I regard him as a fluent liar and consummate actor , I think not .
11 " I regard him as a friend , and you remember that apart from all this local colour , I gave you tile specifications of his boat . "
12 I think it 's a very wonderful thing I mean I regard him as a warmonger World War Two by his eighteen month should have been
13 He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity .
14 He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags .
15 On being asked by someone else whether she saw God as male or female , she replied ‘ Neither : I see him as an absolute supreme Being ! ’ .
16 I see him as a servile little bugger !
17 I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school .
18 I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? )
19 I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’
20 You see him as an insignificant twit .
21 through you see him as as the actor but to everybody else he 's like
22 But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin .
23 It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us .
24 We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis .
25 Whether working in watercolours or oils we see him as a real painter 's painter , a technical wizard , but not a great imaginative talent .
26 The dealer then approaches the arms manufacturers telling them that if they appoint him as their agent , he will get them a contract in return for a percentage of the value of the transaction , which could be as low as 3 per cent , or as high as 15 depending on how specialized is the equipment required .
27 Because he did n't , he stayed cos they class him as an A person .
28 Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late .
29 They portray him as a confused mixture of honesty and cantankerousness : a big heart governed by a stroppy mind .
30 To the extent that they destroy him as a competitor , they destroy him , speaking generally and largely , as a customer .
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