Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] as an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
| 2 | For Bürger ( 1984 , p. 48 ) it is specifically ‘ bourgeois art ’ that sets itself up as an autonomous realm . |
| 3 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 4 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 5 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 6 | Ronald Reagan has made a career out of being underestimated and the same mistake was made in 1980 when his critics wrote him off as an amiable , ex-movie actor ill-qualified for the presidency . |
| 7 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 8 | Write it down as an odd . |