Example sentences of "[pers pn] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 2 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 3 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |
| 4 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 5 | Keld , like Thwaite , is a sleepy little place and will be forever remembered by me as the milkless village . |
| 6 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 8 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 9 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 10 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 11 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 12 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 13 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 14 | Very normal — father , mother , and me as the adored only child . |
| 15 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 16 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 17 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 18 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 19 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 20 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 21 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 22 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
| 23 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |
| 24 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 25 | Finally , Bell draws specific attention to the growth of professional and technical workers and identifies them as the key occupations around which the structure of post-industrial society is organized . |
| 26 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 27 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 28 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 29 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 30 | If clay granules are used , it would be advisable to dry them first in the sun , and then spread them as the first layer , before putting the other layers of peat and sand . |