Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 2 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 3 | They turfed him out as an 18-year-old before Cambridge gave him a lifeline trial . |
| 4 | I thought she might have made it up as an excuse for coming round to see me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
| 7 | It was decided that he would take me in as an apprentice to old Bill ( Mr Carswell ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When we worked it out as an average that the sheer monitoring and chasing quotes or following up quotes erm and just preparing the documentation , we were n't convinced that was the case at all . |
| 10 | Point me out as an oddity ? ’ |
| 11 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
| 12 | Although Mr Smith welcomed the ‘ considerable potential ’ of the register , he ruled it out as an alternative to removing the unions ' constitutional influence outright . |
| 13 | By bringing it out as an A-format , £4.99 , mass-market paperback we hope to attract a much wider readership . |
| 14 | At first glance only his sword and the shoulder straps attached to his shirt mark him out as an officer . |
| 15 | In both fields he was an individualist , and in both his successes mark him out as an artist of power and originality . |
| 16 | There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service . |
| 17 | Police had taken it over as an emergency headquarters . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Write it down as an odd . |