Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 2 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |
| 3 | Sometimes we would even just refer to him as ‘ The New ’ . |
| 4 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 5 | Kelly no longer thought of him as a steward , a central player in the racing game , but as someone who seemed to understand her better than anyone ever had , apart from her father . |
| 6 | He mocks Polonius , but still thinks of him as a ‘ tedious old fool ’ , showing that his feelings have not been resolved . |
| 7 | Angelica said that such a gesture would certainly catch the local people off-guard ; a new policeman had been appointed to the area about two years before , and everybody still referred to him as ‘ that newcomer ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll always think of him as a friend , ’ she thought . |
| 9 | The boy was still looking round him as if he expected someone to come . |
| 10 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 11 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 12 | I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ . |
| 13 | It was difficult to remember that I had ever thought of him as a schoolboy . |
| 14 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 16 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 17 | Lots of people neither like nor trust him ; they still think of him as ‘ Slick Willie ’ . |
| 18 | Wyllie , on the point of launching his biography which immodestly refers to him as ‘ The Legend , ’ says he no longer wants the job and has not let his name be put forward . |
| 19 | His shirt had been as cleanly stripped from him as if he had never been wearing it , although his skin appeared uninjured . |
| 20 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 21 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 22 | He also thought of him as his father . |
| 23 | Kant tried to link the idea of numerically identical particulars with the idea of one space and one time , both conceived by him as the a priori forms of our intuition . |
| 24 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 25 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 26 | Already he was wondering if his fame meant that his writing had only a contemporary appeal and he complained that people now thought of him as a celebrity rather than as a poet . |
| 27 | Margaret had admitted Dickie liked him ; I now thought of him as part of the family ; Margaret herself had lowered her resistance enough to take his advice . |
| 28 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 29 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 30 | His part in the murder proceedings had attracted unwelcome publicity ; the tabloid press invariably referred to him as ‘ the Shropshire Sherlock ’ , a nickname which had not afforded his rustic constituents much pleasure . |