Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 2 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 3 | His dedication brought him swift advancement at the cost of alienating his contemporaries , who regarded him as an arrogant , stand-offish prig . |
| 4 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 5 | Desert Storm commander , General Norman Schwarzkopf described it as an historic day : a day to make it clear who was in charge . |
| 6 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 7 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 8 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 10 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 11 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 12 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 13 | We had read it , used it as an absorbent insulating layer to combat puddles and spilt porridge , and finally , when it and our bowels had reached saturation point , used it as lavatory paper ! |
| 14 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 15 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 16 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 17 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 18 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 19 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 20 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 21 | Well in fact it showed it as an outstanding amount . |
| 22 | With the short notice Lesley was unprepared for this event , having been on holiday the previous 2 weeks , and was disappointed in her own performance but enjoyed it as an international event . |
| 23 | In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change . |
| 24 | His tutor , Dr John Preston [ q.v. ] , recommended Bradstreet to the Earl of Lincoln , who employed him as an assistant steward on his estates . |
| 25 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 26 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 27 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
| 28 | Placards around the Dundee plant gates depicted him as an alien enemy from south of the border . |
| 29 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 30 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |