Example sentences of "use [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't use me as an instrument , I said , and I 'll have to sort out my own feelings . |
| 2 | He started off by taking Jack Hylton — an old friend of mine and a leading member of the board of TWW — to meet some of the independent television proprietors , and at that stage he suggested to Hylton that he might use me as an intermediary . |
| 3 | I 'm not staying around just so you can use me as your verbal punch-bag again . |
| 4 | As Alfred tells Michael when he pleads Brother Mine is an act of confession and conciliation : ‘ If you want to cleanse yourself go have a bath and do n't use me as your bar of soap ’ . |
| 5 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 6 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 7 | While special programmes for older viewers undoubtedly offer information and support , television companies may use them as an excuse for not including realistic portrayals of older people in their mainstream peak-time programmes . |
| 8 | What a challenge to transform and use them as an asset ! |
| 9 | In order to create an individual life in the world , we should use them as colours on an artist 's palette , to paint our own picture . |
| 10 | They can let successful managers use them as a kind of bonus or incentive . |
| 11 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 12 | Groups of teachers could use them as the basis of informal discussion groups . |
| 13 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 14 | The governor had other officials whose posts entitled them to sit in his executive council , but although they might have looked like potential ministers the legislative assemblies could not use them to control the governor and , as the governor had no automatic right to dismiss his councillors , he could not use them as his ministers either . |
| 15 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 16 | As in war , you could use them as a screen behind which your knights could withdraw and wait until they were ready to charge . |
| 17 | ( These two terms , incidentally , story and plot , are sometimes used to describe two opposed types or aspects of narrative , but unfortunately they are also used as interchangeable synonyms and I shall use them as such . ) |
| 18 | ‘ You might like the results , I turn them into drawings , I do n't just use them as photographs . ’ |
| 19 | Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ? |
| 20 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 21 | you can use them as |
| 22 | would n't use you as a punching-bag |
| 23 | ‘ Did you use her as a consolation after we split up ? |
| 24 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 25 | So I 'll use him as my contact . |
| 26 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , why not leave the keys with us and then if you ca n't get away , you can perhaps come back here — or if everything goes OK we 'll use it as a playroom or something . ’ |
| 28 | let the room thermostat control the temperature , DO N'T use it as a switch |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd use it as a mandate to change the present disgraceful system , ’ Kennedy replied . |
| 30 | Suffice it to conclude that there is overwhelming evidence that the external information delivered to those who might use it as an aid to their strategic decision making will tend actually to be used to the extent that it matches the detailed task being undertaken and its context . |