Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 2 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
| 3 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 4 | Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’ |
| 5 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 6 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 7 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 8 | they , you ca n't have it , I 'll put you down as a moderate drinker . |
| 9 | ‘ He was calling you in as the ultimate specialist . |
| 10 | We could have passed you off as the English rose of our collection , although I trust you have n't the natural frigidity of your British sisters . ’ |
| 11 | They will mark you out as a professional — personable , efficient , and reliable . |
| 12 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 13 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 16 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 19 | Put her down as a poss . |
| 20 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
| 21 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He summed her up as a sharp little piece with a head on her shoulders . |
| 24 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 25 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 26 | From his origins in Protestant East Belfast , his exhilarating ball control and deceptive change of pace marked him out as a unique prospect in an area accustomed to discovering football talent . |
| 27 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 28 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 29 | It 's a well-founded faith he has developed since Michelin this year singled him out as the only French chef worthy of upgrading to the coveted three-star accolade . |
| 30 | The exigent journalist Lynn Barber , in her collection of interviews Mostly Men , singles him out as the sole male representative of a type she describes as ‘ nice , straightforward , feet on the ground ’ . |