Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 4 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 5 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 6 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 7 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 8 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 9 | And we only did it as a joke ! you ! |
| 10 | He stayed indoors the whole winter , so Cathy only had me as a companion on her walks . |
| 11 | ‘ It was because you instinctively recognised her as a rival . |
| 12 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 13 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 14 | In welcoming him , the party thus welcomed him as a stereotype . |
| 15 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 16 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 17 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 18 | We camped about and we had our little parties , but we never really discussed it ; just accepted it as a fact of life . |
| 19 | It just struck me as a thought , that 's all . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 21 | How Seymour ever made it as a film star is beyond me . |
| 22 | He was actually no more than a deputy , but John always used him as a sounding board for his new ideas and always considered his advice very carefully . |
| 23 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 24 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 25 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 26 | Here they are reinvoked to discredit Wilde , yet in a way which still acknowledged him as a threat . |
| 27 | After the success of Carrots and of The Cuckoo Clock the following year , which at once established her as a leading writer for children , she was to write prolifically , sometimes , as in the 1880s and early 1890s , completing seven books in a year . |
| 28 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 29 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 30 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |