Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 2 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 3 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 4 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 5 | Does the Chief Secretary remember the October 1974 general election when he was my opponent in West Bromwich and then described me as a militant ? |
| 6 | My mother , wild with exasperation , one day again described me as a lump . |
| 7 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 8 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 9 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 10 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 11 | They were firmly rejected by the ANC which described them as a plan to perpetuate white rule and delay true democracy . |
| 12 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 13 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 14 | probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other . |
| 15 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 18 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 19 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 20 | He regarded you as an opponent whom he was determined to get the better of , in whichever way he could . ’ |
| 21 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 22 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 23 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 24 | Small animals used her as a shelter , burrowing into her rotting bowels . |
| 25 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 26 | That would , almost certainly , rule out the return of Kevin Keegan , who ended his short-term managerial contract two weeks ago by demanding the £2m he says Sir John promised him as a condition of a three-year contract . |
| 27 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 28 | On hearing of her death , Prime Minister Cavaco Silva described her as a person ‘ of exceptional quality who contributed with vigour and impartiality to the appreciation of culture in Portugal and the presentation of Portuguese culture abroad . ’ |
| 29 | The woman seemed pious and withdrawn : indeed , one of the innkeepers actually described her as a nun . |
| 30 | Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] described her as a gentlewoman , and her fluent and confident style points in the same direction . |