Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] he as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 2 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 3 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 4 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 5 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 6 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 7 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 8 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 9 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 10 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 11 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 12 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |