Example sentences of "[verb] described [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 2 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |
| 3 | A few years ago if you had a machine with a 40Mb hard drive you would have described it as a high specification machine . |
| 4 | Some have described her as a 1920s version of much-admired Kate Adie , who always appears to be in the thick of things wherever the action is ! |
| 5 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 6 | The police have described it as a miraculous escape . |
| 7 | Binoculars show that it is very highly coloured ; telescopically I have described it as an orange blob , quite unlike a normal star . |
| 8 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |