Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 2 | He warmed the pot , instinctively found the tea in the caddy Frances 's Auntie Pamela had given them as a wedding present , and brewed up . |
| 3 | She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used . |
| 4 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 5 | He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories . |
| 6 | After visiting Bruce Hutchison , the next stop would be at the home of Mrs Nellie McClung whose books ‘ Clearing in the West ’ and ‘ The Stream Runs Fast ’ had impressed me as a youth . |
| 7 | They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’ |
| 8 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 9 | I 'd never considered her as a wife . " |
| 10 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 11 | He had completely forgotten about it , not having considered it as a weapon . |
| 12 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 13 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 14 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 15 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 16 | And I think that analysis allowed me , on personal terms , eventually to understand things like incest , like you were saying Elizabeth , sexual violence and things like that , that I think had really weakened me as a person . |
| 17 | We have successfully positioned ourselves as a Bank which wants its customers ' savings . |
| 18 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 19 | Howard , who was becoming a country gentleman with some town property ( as opposed to his father , who would have seen himself as a London merchant with a country house ) , set about enlarging and redecorating his ‘ country seat ’ . |
| 20 | Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse . |
| 21 | Originally appointed in 1916 to teach Mathematics , he had soon revealed himself as an organiser " par excellence " . |
| 22 | There are cases , however , where the military has seen itself as a force for modernization , particularly in societies perceived to be ruled by traditional elites , and where the military may become imbued with the norms of Western processes of industrialization to the extent that it seeks to impose them on society . |
| 23 | Colleagues , if we believe in playing the full part in the European community then as Steven Hughes has just said we as a union must back the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 24 | Done something as an animal does : just finds it 's gone ahead and done it . |
| 25 | But if not , how has her work in algal taxono or her dives into the Galapagos Rift prepared her as an expert on the moving business ? |
| 26 | He had at last accepted her as a friend and began whining and wriggling with pleasure as she approached . |
| 27 | But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’ |
| 28 | Serfaty , who used to dismiss the human rights movement as bourgeois liberalism , then heard from his family that Amnesty International had adopted him as a prisoner of conscience , jailed for the peaceful expression of his political ideas . |
| 29 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 30 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |