Example sentences of "[vb pp] him as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 4 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |
| 5 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 6 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 7 | But that same reader is likely to resent and disbelieve the same insight when it is told him as a fact by an author . |
| 8 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 9 | Chris had reconstructed him as a man . |
| 10 | His blue sash marked him as a Hearthware , and his face was red with heat and wine . |
| 11 | His uncle had entered him as a subscriber onto the Royal Exchange , Manchester , and made him a partner . |
| 12 | She was damn lucky to have pulled him as a husband . |
| 13 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 14 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 15 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 16 | Most athletes first encountered him as a voice , bellowing in multi-lingual fury at officials who had broken rules or arrangements designed to make racing safer or more fair . |
| 17 | He gestured across the lawn that ran down to a stream and then up again to his own cottage , which Thomas had given him as a wedding present . |
| 18 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 19 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 20 | The Indians regarded him as a medicine man and his apple-tree enthusiasm , odd clothing and religious devotion — he distributed religious tracts torn in parts for widespread circulation — started many folktales . |
| 21 | Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 22 | Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles ? |
| 23 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 24 | Hauser had struck him as a man who moved with great caution . |
| 25 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 26 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 27 | Oh , and the victim , Yankel Rosenbaum , a lawyer , had identified him as the killer before he died . |
| 28 | Old Asshe had liked him , he had been certain , and should have welcomed him as a son-in-law ; but evidently no man in the world was to be permitted to fill that position . |
| 29 | Since then they 've made LA Story together , and she has encouraged him as an actor rather than a comic . |
| 30 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |