Example sentences of "[vb past] me as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 2 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 3 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 4 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 5 | ‘ It was my father who encouraged me as a high jumper . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 7 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 8 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
| 9 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 10 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 11 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 12 | Many women admired my strength and the men , slightly awed , treated me as an honorary male . |
| 13 | Returning to the advice that Leo Amery gave me as a young man , I remember reading widely from the great autobiographies and biographies that he recommended , including the works of Lord Milner . |
| 14 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 15 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 16 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 17 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 18 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 19 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 20 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
| 21 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 22 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 23 | The Bogyoke had lunch with Lord Wavell who recognised him as ‘ a strong character ’ but also warned Pethick-Lawrence that their negotiations would be difficult : ‘ He struck me as a suspicious , ignorant but determined little tough . ’ |
| 24 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 25 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 26 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 27 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |