Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 2 | Even before he started at Rangers , Brian Clough had written him off as being ‘ too nice ’ for the job . |
| 3 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've hurt him enough as it is ; ca n't you see the state of his face ? ’ |
| 5 | A Catholic friend had pointed him out as he hurried through the streets with a small boy at his side , clutching a worn black leather bag — probably answering a sick call , his friend had suggested . |
| 6 | He 'd have thrown him out as soon as look at him . |
| 7 | This had pleased him mightily as his admiration for Lady Porter was nearly as great as that for Margaret Thatcher , and , in consequence , his attitude to Grunte had warmed . |
| 8 | A line erased and recut seems to have described him originally as tyrant of Gel a , and the political events reflected in this claim and its cancellation can only belong to the seventies . |