Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 2 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 3 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 4 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |
| 5 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 6 | This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem . |