Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 2 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 3 | But Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 's hypothesis is not primarily concerned with interaction between an individual speaker and an interlocutor , although this might follow from it as a special case . |
| 4 | The statement went on to say that UITF 3 ‘ clearly indicates that the goodwill component should be included as part of the profit or loss on disposal , and not distanced from it as a separate item . |
| 5 | Coatlique is often depicted with a child in her arms , and the first man was thought to have sprung from her as a result of divine conception . |
| 6 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |