Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 2 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 3 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 4 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 5 | I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement . |
| 6 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 7 | ‘ I loved him as a son does a father . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 9 | The following sentences taken from van Ek ( 1966 : 104-5 ) illustrate this use : ( 97 ) I knew him as a man to be very much like myself . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 12 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 13 | Before I took him as a patient , I watched many of his fight films . |
| 14 | I liked him as a man and I thought er Mrs was a delightful lady . |
| 15 | There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment . |
| 16 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 17 | I recognized him as the man with only three fingers on his left hand — the one who had come to the Admiral Benbow ! |
| 18 | I set him as a foreigner : untrustworthy , slyly clever , un-English . |
| 19 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 20 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |
| 21 | The Presbyterian ministers who occupied most of the Church 's livings , however , even before his arrival set up a committee to draw up a list of the objectionable features in his works ; their report , which condemned him as a heretic for denying Original Sin , was sent to the King . |
| 22 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 23 | The release of his second album , ‘ Hands Free ’ , follows the success of Mona , a hit from his first album which established him as a singer/songwriter but did very little to convince a cynical world that under the suntan there lurked a talented guitarist . |
| 24 | At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1902 , he won the premier literary award ( the chair ) for an ode composed in the traditional strict metres on ‘ Ymadawiad Arthur ’ ( The Passing of Arthur ) which established him as the precursor of a new era in Welsh literature . |
| 25 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 26 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |
| 27 | Commander Leonard Burt , who was to be the recipient of Joyce 's confessions many years later , noted this sense of grievance which characterised him as a young man : |
| 28 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 29 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 30 | His brother , who succeeded him as the Emperor Leopold II , was able to restore peace in the disturbed areas only by a skilful mixture of force and concessions . |