Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 2 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 3 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
| 5 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 6 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 7 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 8 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 9 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 10 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 12 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 13 | Irony piled upon irony in the shape of one group on the Virgin roster , Heaven 17 , whose ‘ image ’ portrayed them as pony-tailed businessmen in executive ‘ power ’ suits . |
| 14 | You knew she 'd be there tonight , which is why you needed me as protective cover . |
| 15 | Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme , while the position of Yegor Gaidar , who was closely associated with the reform programme , was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15 . |
| 16 | When I expressed my distaste , Gustave interpreted it as mere jealousy . |
| 17 | Starting from an implicit acceptance of Roman rule they interpreted it as responsible contemporaries , having regard to the needs and interests of the Greek upper class . |
| 18 | Asquith succeeded him as Prime Minister ; Lloyd George took his place , entering the Cabinet for the first time , as Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 19 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 20 | Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude . |
| 21 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 22 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 23 | Kingsburgh , Flora 's father-in-law-to-be , gave the Prince a pair of new shoes and , when they were returned to him , kept them as treasured souvenirs . |
| 24 | Fortunately , Mike 's mother took them as further manifestation of her confused mental state . |
| 25 | He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it . |
| 26 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 27 | He never saw her as other men did as a woman . |
| 28 | They were very positive about community care and saw it as natural development of their work . |
| 29 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 30 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |