Example sentences of "of him as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he 's always , Fred , thou you think of him as the policeman do n't you that John Thaw . |
| 2 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 3 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 4 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 5 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 6 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 7 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 8 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |