Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 4 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At one time , the Orphic cult of extremists regarded him as the Creator of the world . |
| 7 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 8 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 9 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 12 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 13 | They probably imagined me as the gentleman flasher in the park ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Your partner probably recognised you as the innocent you are — and tried to take advantage of the fact . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cambridge 1 Millwall 0 DION DUBLIN , Cambridge 's top-scorer , started the game on the bench but finished it as the match-winner , following an inspired double-substitution by manager John Beck at half-time . |
| 25 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 26 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 27 | In 1864 he purchased Sentry Fields extending from the top of Seymer Road to Durlston Head and developed it as the Durlston Park estate . |
| 28 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 29 | Two men had been arrested in Liverpool and their informer in Belfast named them as the assassins . |
| 30 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |