Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] to [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came , it was an anticlimax , but she squealed anyway and clung to him as if he 'd showered her with a gallon of spunk . |
| 2 | Kuhn characterizes this work as ‘ puzzle-solving ’ and refers to it as ‘ normal science ’ . |
| 3 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 4 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 5 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 6 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 7 | We shall be concerned with the first category of nomic correlates , and refer to them as nomic correlates , but it is their nature rather than their name that is important . |
| 8 | It 's as if Tom Robinson ( the negro ) has no say in what happens to him and a white woman has the right to push him around and refer to him as nigger , overpowering him in all senses of the matter . |
| 9 | erm It can be daunting to go back and erm meet teachers again and talk to them as , as adults rather than in the way that you used to when you were a child and erm the teacher was very much above you , but erm try your best to , to do that for the sake of the child because it is very very helpful for children if they feel that their teachers and parents are on pretty good terms . |
| 10 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 11 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 12 | She scandalised the academic conventions by naming all the chimps ( Mr Leakey , after her mentor Louis Leakey ; Mr McGregor , after the Beatrix Potter character ) and referring to them as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ , instead of ‘ it ’ . |
| 13 | A delegation of ten Nonconformist ministers even visited the bishops in the Tower on 10 June , saying " they could not but adhear to them as men constant in the Protestant faith " . |