Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am very pleased with my visit to Kano ’ , he wrote to its emir , ‘ and I am glad to have seen you again , for I regard you as my personal friend , in whom I place entire confidence and trust . ’ |
| 2 | The king wrote to his bride-to-be : ‘ I promise to take you as my only lover , banishing from my mind and heart all others and serving only you . ’ |
| 3 | All the same , every Saturday was the same , that thrill of excitement as the clock struck midnight , and her own breathless hope as Miguelito 's lively black eyes roved the audience , and sometimes rested on her as his liquid voice accompanied his virtuoso guitar playing … |
| 4 | Meredith felt breathlessness claim her as his possessive arms wrapped around her once more . |
| 5 | He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not . |
| 6 | Ruth clung to him as her wide eyes drank in the nightmare splendour of the illuminated stalagmites and stalactites . |
| 7 | But having him as her only companion meant she had to be constantly on her guard . |
| 8 | While still on her sick-bed , Conroy tried to force her to appoint him as her personal secretary when she became queen . |
| 9 | When , ill with typhoid in October 1835 , Victoria was pressed hard by Conroy to nominate him as her personal secretary on her accession , she persistently and successfully resisted , with Lehzen 's support . |
| 10 | She might have found it confusing that , in spite of having been married to the Father , it was God the Son who told her to treat Him as her wedded husband and kiss Him as much as she liked in bed , but Margery took things like that in her stride . |
| 11 | In January Aquino acknowledged her debt to Ramos by endorsing him as her chosen successor for the presidency [ see pp. 38728-29 ] . |
| 12 | He had reportedly turned down an offer from Kaunda of the post of labour minister and a position on the central committee of UNIP — a decision which was said to have had much to do with the MMD's decision in April to choose him as its presidential candidate [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 13 | Most of the anti-Baldwin rebels looked to him as their natural leader , and he was unanxious to alienate their support , which , wherever lie showed signs of excessive caution or loyalty , began to move towards substitutes . |
| 14 | ‘ We have used him as our main battering ram this season and Wigan 's forwards will find him a tough customer . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We have used him as our main battering ram this season and Wigan 's forwards will find him a tough customer . |
| 16 | The chin was as much part of him as his keen eyes , and her face softened at the thought . |
| 17 | Alyssia tried to remain cool , calm and collected , watching him as his long fingers worked away . |
| 18 | Apart from prisons , Howard 's abiding interest was in the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases and his later visits to hospitals and lazarettos ( port-side institutions where suspect goods and personnel could be quarantined ) were just as important to him as his continuing battle against gaol fever . |
| 19 | Its time of usefulness was relatively short , though it lasted as a fortress until 1621 , when some local Protestants used it as their strong point in an attempted uprising against the new , official Catholicism of the region . |
| 20 | The answer is that we can , without using intuition , speculation or hearsay concerning Z , prove that Z , C and M are logical consequences of the axioms A1 through to I. Now whilst algebraists do not regard it as their prime duty to reduce all such sets of axioms to a minimum size , it is part of an algebraist 's function to investigate consequences of axioms such as those just referred to . |
| 21 | None of the children had wanted birthday cake , which Tina had mistakenly made with fruit and nuts in it , so they ate it as their second course . |
| 22 | Clearly what is required is one unified system which at least matches the manual system for reliability , accessibility and flexibility so that local managers regard it as their primary source of information . |
| 23 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 24 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 25 | There is at present no academic discipline which sees it as its specific project to examine the nature of artefacts as cultural forms . |
| 26 | His father , who was mayor of the village , started the first school and installed him in it as its first teacher when he was only 19 . |
| 27 | Indeed , the beginning of the period is as far removed from the end of it as we human beings are removed from it in history . |
| 28 | But Courier is playing down the fourth-round confrontation at Flushing Meadow , insisting : ‘ I see it as my next match — and every match is a new challenge . |
| 29 | The inside is a mess , even though he 's come to look on it as his only home and so tries to keep it straight . |
| 30 | He told his present translator [ i.e. , Strachey ] , probably in 1921 , that he regarded it as his best-written work … the book remained a favourite all through his life and he constantly recurred to it . |