Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 2 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 3 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 4 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 5 | Did n't it hurt his arm to hold her like this ? she wondered distractedly , but then another tremulous whimper escaped her as the hand holding her against him moved to cover her breast . |
| 6 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 7 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 8 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 9 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 10 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 11 | Speaking at the University of Loughborough in October 1986 , the Governor of the Bank of England explained it as the outcome of ‘ deregulation ’ and subsequent ‘ structural changes ’ in financial markets . |
| 12 | Its institutional imprecision and evident anachronism weakened it as the basis for a compromise settlement ; whatever its intention , the fate of the Persian Manifesto was to serve as a base from which to sally against liberalism and all its works . |
| 13 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 14 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 15 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 16 | The procedure circulated them as the thing that 's in place . |
| 17 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 18 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 19 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 20 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 21 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 22 | After the death of John Rose [ q.v. ] in 1677 , Gurle succeeded him as the king 's gardener at St James 's , with £320 a year to maintain the garden and another £240 a year as his own salary . |
| 23 | London 's Evening Standard referred to ‘ AEA Technology — the reshaped Atomic Energy Authority ’ and the Daily Telegraph described us as the ‘ re-styled AEA Technology . ’ |
| 24 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 25 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 26 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 27 | In a famous description of Basil III , the Imperial Ambassador Sigismund von Herberstein described him as the most despotic sovereign on earth . |
| 28 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 29 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 30 | A translation of Cato 's precepts dedicated to Cawarden praised him as the embodiment of ‘ politique wisdom ’ . |