Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 2 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 3 | Fred Archer referred to him as a ‘ pretty ’ jockey . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 6 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 7 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 8 | He also referred to her as a ‘ slapper ’ and a ‘ tart ’ . |
| 9 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 10 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 11 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 12 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 13 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 14 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 15 | It occurred to him as a possibility , for instance , that , prior to being ‘ kept alive ’ for ten days , Dobson might first have been murdered . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was thinking of the colour of her hair : Daniel , you may remember , alluded to her as a redhead . |
| 18 | A satirical poem alluded to him as a ‘ spiritual dragoon ’ . |
| 19 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 20 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 21 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 22 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |
| 23 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 24 | It came to him as a Revelation , descending upon his mind in all its complex glory , that there was a man in the City in need of his help , and that the man — his name did n't matter-would free everyone as this awakening had freed him . |
| 25 | It came to her as a shock that , although she had an excellent opportunity to be acquainted with high school children through her son , she did not know any of his friends . |
| 26 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |
| 27 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 28 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 29 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 30 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |