Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |
| 2 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 3 | However , Hope , by that time , clearly regarded himself as the embodiment of blacks ' ambitions . |
| 4 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 5 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 6 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 7 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 8 | At one time , the Orphic cult of extremists regarded him as the Creator of the world . |
| 9 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 10 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 11 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 12 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 13 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 14 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 15 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 16 | Said ‘ tell me more ’ , then revealed himself as the reviewer of the DOE proposal and only later suggested that we collaborate … |
| 17 | They probably imagined me as the gentleman flasher in the park ! ’ |
| 18 | At a further press conference on Jan. 19 the opposition parties produced Maj. József Vegvari , an officer in the State Security Service who identified himself as the source of the leaked information , who alleged that reports compiled as a result of the surveillance operation had regularly been passed to senior HSP members and discussed at meetings of the Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | ‘ Your partner probably recognised you as the innocent you are — and tried to take advantage of the fact . |
| 20 | Sometimes people addressed letters mistakenly to Lady Muriel Selvedge , and on these occasions she imagined herself as the daughter of an earl , a marquess , or even a duke , comfortably unmarried . |
| 21 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
| 22 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 23 | He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years . |
| 24 | Its institutional imprecision and evident anachronism weakened it as the basis for a compromise settlement ; whatever its intention , the fate of the Persian Manifesto was to serve as a base from which to sally against liberalism and all its works . |
| 25 | The blue , after a while , revealed itself as the dress of a woman walking behind an ox . |
| 26 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 27 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 28 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 29 | De Gaulle was perceived and perceived himself as the incarnation of both revolution and restoration . |
| 30 | Did n't it hurt his arm to hold her like this ? she wondered distractedly , but then another tremulous whimper escaped her as the hand holding her against him moved to cover her breast . |