Example sentences of "[prep] he as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he 's always , Fred , thou you think of him as the policeman do n't you that John Thaw . |
| 2 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 3 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 4 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 5 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 6 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 7 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 8 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 9 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 10 | There was a brief scream behind him as the crossbow man , sighting down his weapon , dropped it and clutched at his throat . |
| 11 | Wearing Havvie 's ring , a diamond heirloom given to all Blaine brides , laughing , talking and playing with him as the London season began , Sally-Anne persuaded herself that she was as happy as a girl could be , Terry Rourke 's betrayal wiped out and forgotten . |
| 12 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 13 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 14 | But the aforementioned medrese was bestowed upon him as the result of the letter of Ferhad Pasa . " |
| 15 | So , though Geoffrey expressed his anger after the knight Walter had killed one of his kinsmen , he accepted two mills from him as the price of his peace . |
| 16 | The veils of sleep and illusion dropped away and she moved as far away from him as the seatbelt allowed , turning her face to the window . |
| 17 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 18 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 19 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 20 | Madeleine had no intention of agreeing to this suggestion and , throughout the long journey back in the car , she remained as close to him as the gear lever allowed , and whenever an opportunity presented itself , leant over and kissed his cheek . |
| 21 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 22 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 23 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 24 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 25 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 26 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 27 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 28 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 29 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 30 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |