Example sentences of "described him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The citation described him as an officer of extreme gallantry , with the qualities of coolness and high powers of leadership under the most trying circumstances . |
| 2 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 3 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 4 | He described him as ‘ a retired civil servant who has made Shakespeare his hobby ’ . |
| 5 | Laughed at when his US promoter described him as ‘ the new Marvin Hagler ’ ; now having the last laugh back home in Ilford |
| 6 | The Sporting Life 's run-down of the runners described him as ‘ this no-hoper ’ . |
| 7 | Steve Cauthen , having his first race ride on Arazi yesterday , described him as a suitable type for Epsom . |
| 8 | Mr Ken Maginnis , MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone , described him as a ‘ very fair man ’ who was easy to communicate with . |
| 9 | The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him . |
| 10 | Eamonn McCann described him as a ‘ passionate Republican , much given to violent rhetoric ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |
| 12 | When she first saw his picture she described him as ‘ an extremely unattractive man with very little , if any , sex appeal ’ . |
| 13 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |
| 14 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 15 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 16 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 17 | Tony McGeorge , defending , described him as a friendly , likeable and highly respected farmer . |
| 18 | The Archbishop of Westminster , Cardinal Basil Hume , described him as ‘ an outstanding servant of truth and justice ’ . |
| 19 | Hayling in turn was delighted to meet a man whose friends described him as a ‘ non-conformist ’ compared with most City types , and one who had strong views about the way City investment was dominated by political advantage . |
| 20 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 21 | In a famous description of Basil III , the Imperial Ambassador Sigismund von Herberstein described him as the most despotic sovereign on earth . |
| 22 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 23 | At the beginning of the previous month , he had given a reading in New York where one observer described him as a " hot ticket " . |
| 24 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 25 | When asked her opinion of Ricky at this time Marsh Dunbar described him as ‘ a vision ’ . |
| 26 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 27 | Bede says that he was in exile for the purposes of study and he subsequently described him as a most learned man ( HE V , 12 ) . |
| 28 | Queen Soraya later described him as " half swashbuckler and half Don Juan " . ) |
| 29 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 30 | Malcolm Muggeridge later said that Burgess ‘ gave me a feeling of being morally afflicted in some way ’ , and described him as the ‘ sick toast of a sick society ’ . |