Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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1 | Described as a giant phallic symbol in the guidebook , I thought of it more as the Fickle Finger of Fate . |
2 | There was no what we call , ends on on the slate , you know going over the tip , there was not so much waste with them there as the new tables . |
3 | About his wife she had no reservations : tough and vital , the life force flowed through her even as the cancer — which she would acknowledge to no one , and certainly not to her husband — extended its grip on her . |
4 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
5 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |