Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 2 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 3 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 4 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 5 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 6 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 7 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |
| 8 | She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used . |
| 9 | He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’ |
| 10 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 11 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 12 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 13 | Finally they seemed to accept me as part of the landscape and came within the range of my camera . |
| 14 | Now that we were adults , she seemed to accept me as a friend . |
| 15 | ‘ They seemed to accept him as a father figure . ’ |
| 16 | They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’ |
| 17 | We taxied towards the buildings and a little party of figures came to meet us as if they were welcoming a foreign diplomat . |
| 18 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 19 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 20 | And then erm mother of course , I can always remember was in the Guild and erm she would , the Guild in those days I 'm always telling the er people today , were very , very active women , very active erm and you 'd got them as councillors , magistrates erm come forward to all these positions . |
| 21 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 22 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 23 | He 'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 25 | He hissed her hand , delicately , a mere whisper of the lips , stood back , looked intently at her until she was forced to smile back at him , and pressing her left hand in his unclawed fingers , swept his blemished hand across the landscape beyond them : Bassenthwaite Lake , the valley , Keswick , Derwent Water , Catbells , Newlands , an Arcadia which his gesture seemed to offer her as his gift . |
| 26 | B : If you 'd left me as captain , none of it would have happened . |
| 27 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 28 | Only the earl of Lancaster among the nobility and Winchelsey among the prelates were committed to the Ordinances ; others seemed to regard them as a measure , or cover for measures , against Gaveston ; Winchelsey , however , died in 1313 , leaving Lancaster alone to pursue his ambitions in the name of the Ordinances . |
| 29 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 30 | He noted ‘ the disintegrating effect of Lloyd George on all with whom he had to deal ’ and came to regard him as ‘ a real corrupter of public life ’ . |