Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 2 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 3 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 4 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 5 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 6 | At home it was a simple matter for me to parade my learning in front of my sisters , stressing my more advanced academic achievements at every possible opportunity , and remaining quite oblivious to their assessment of me as an insufferable little prig . |
| 7 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 8 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 9 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 10 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 11 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 12 | Some people in publishing like to think of theirs as a glamorous medium , so they sometimes copy the Hollywood glitter , They certainly did so last week , when the Periodical Publishers Association handed out its awards for 1983 . |
| 13 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 14 | Teachers definitely think of you as a good athlete if you 're black . |
| 15 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 16 | I never thought of you as a proper person before . |
| 17 | I think of you as a special customer . ’ |
| 18 | One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production . |
| 19 | Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry . |
| 20 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 21 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 22 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |
| 23 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 24 | Even a slight anecdote of her as a sixteen-year-old girl guide being seduced in a tent by a boy scout is illustrated . |
| 25 | He would go on thinking of her as a beautiful , hidden woman , with a striking flair for life lying in sulky disuse . |
| 26 | Faye Hamilton and her brother both thought of her as a sweet little thing who needed protection , did they ? |
| 27 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 28 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 29 | He 'd become more aware of her as an attractive girl with a very feminine figure that the fashionable flat-chested dress styles could not conceal . |
| 30 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |