Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 2 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 3 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 4 | ‘ She treated me like a workman and I treated her as the owner . ’ |
| 5 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 6 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 7 | No er well well if he 's got any sense I I always tell the advertiser I said now the adv I said you as the advertiser have got to keep worrying you may have to chivvy them up . |
| 8 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 9 | I recognized him as the man with only three fingers on his left hand — the one who had come to the Admiral Benbow ! |
| 10 | Sometimes people addressed letters mistakenly to Lady Muriel Selvedge , and on these occasions she imagined herself as the daughter of an earl , a marquess , or even a duke , comfortably unmarried . |
| 11 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 12 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 13 | A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it . |
| 14 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 15 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 16 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |
| 17 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 18 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 19 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 20 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 21 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 22 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 23 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 24 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 25 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 26 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 27 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 28 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 29 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 30 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |