Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 2 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 3 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 4 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 5 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 6 | My mother , wild with exasperation , one day again described me as a lump . |
| 7 | Does the Chief Secretary remember the October 1974 general election when he was my opponent in West Bromwich and then described me as a militant ? |
| 8 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 9 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 10 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 11 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 12 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 13 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 14 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 15 | Ryzhkov , speaking in Tashkent , described them as a ‘ carefully prepared action ’ led by ‘ extremists ’ , and blamed complacent local officials for allowing the situation to develop ; some of them , in fact , had actively encouraged the rioters . |
| 16 | The Politburo , reviewing the talks , described them as a ‘ major political event ’ and thought particularly significant the two leaders ' declaration that a nuclear war could not be won and must never be fought ; this was at odds with the views of some influential US ( and Soviet ) strategists . |
| 17 | While Ridley 's remarks provoked some adverse reaction in West Germany , Chancellor Helmut Kohl described them as a " faux pas " and expressed understanding of the United Kingdom 's concerns over the German role in Europe . |
| 18 | They were firmly rejected by the ANC which described them as a plan to perpetuate white rule and delay true democracy . |
| 19 | This helped them as a creative unit — in 1967 they came up with arguably their greatest single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever and with the album Sergeant Pepper 's Lonely Hearts ' Club Band which , though it has n't aged particularly well , was certainly a quantum leap forward for popular music at the time . |
| 20 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 21 | probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other . |
| 22 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 23 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 24 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 25 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 26 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 27 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 28 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 29 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 30 | Small animals used her as a shelter , burrowing into her rotting bowels . |