Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 2 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 3 | He gestured across the lawn that ran down to a stream and then up again to his own cottage , which Thomas had given him as a wedding present . |
| 4 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 5 | But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’ |
| 6 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 7 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 8 | Serfaty , who used to dismiss the human rights movement as bourgeois liberalism , then heard from his family that Amnesty International had adopted him as a prisoner of conscience , jailed for the peaceful expression of his political ideas . |
| 9 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 10 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 11 | Chris had reconstructed him as a man . |
| 12 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 13 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 14 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 15 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 16 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 17 | His uncle had entered him as a subscriber onto the Royal Exchange , Manchester , and made him a partner . |
| 18 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 19 | Margot Iverson had struck him as a very controlled woman . |
| 20 | Hauser had struck him as a man who moved with great caution . |
| 21 | In his twelve years in Paris Modigliani had painted portraits almost exclusively and had lost the ‘ habit of contemplating landscape ’ that had fired him as a boy . |
| 22 | The audience who had loved him as a stage juvenile were themselves growing old , and could not fail to notice the signs of ageing in their idol . |
| 23 | She had wanted it preserved and she had chosen him as a means to this end . |
| 24 | A former wartime lieutenant in the Lithuanian police , Anton Gecas , on July 17 lost a £600,000 libel case against the United Kingdom Scottish Television company which had described him as a war criminal . |
| 25 | Dorothy Allen , his agent , had described him as a ’ quite remarkable ’ fellow and so , personably and articulately , it proved . |