Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] him as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 2 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 3 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 5 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 6 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 7 | And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon . |
| 8 | In my view in the case of such a statutory assignment the person to whom compensation is payable under section 58 is B. He is the person who has become entitled to the deposit in place of A. The expression ‘ depositor ’ in that section is apt to embrace him as the assignee of A , and the ‘ protected deposit ’ referred to is the liability of the bank to him in respect of the United Kingdom sterling deposit or deposits to which he is entitled . |
| 9 | After six competitive games it became clear to me that the standard of football required in the Multivite/Singletons League Division Three was way beyond his ability and so , sadly , I felt the club was no longer able to accommodate him as a player . |
| 10 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 11 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 12 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 13 | It 's difficult to imagine him as a Plantagenet — rather like Edward the Second . |
| 14 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 15 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |