Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To coincide with this , he relaunched himself as Revd Fr.
2 There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine .
3 Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) .
4 Specifically it was , he regarded it as kind of transmuted libido .
5 This was because he used them as guidebooks .
6 It was instrumental in bringing the young Niki Lauda into the public eye when he dismissed it as rubbish after a handful of laps .
7 Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’
8 He portrayed himself as Pierrot in one painting and wrote on it in Italian : ‘ Will he flower ? ’
9 The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character .
10 But although the attitudinist agrees with the intuitionist that the meaning of ethical words can not be exhaustively analysed in naturalistic or metaphysical terms he takes a more positive view of the kinds of definition which Moore was so concerned to refute , for he sees them as examples of a particular type of definition , which has a legitimate place in discourse .
11 He does n't see us as a part of a crowd , he does n't see us as a number on a computer , he does n't see us as numbers on a bank account , or in some other organizational er er er computer set up or whatever it is , he does n't just see us as that he sees us as individuals .
12 He alarmed us as children : he had a gruff manner , a game leg and a pronounced cast in one eye .
13 She called him Fred while he addressed her as Gladys — names which they picked from the Spike Milligan radio shows .
14 He needed me as unction to soothe his pain .
15 Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name .
16 The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons .
17 He enters me as fortress , I can only thank him from my battlements ; I am the pearl the knight must capture to win heaven and the drug that will detain him from his quest .
18 But while Wattana gracefully accepted his defeats , he treated them as part of his education .
19 There was no ease in the relationship any more : he saw them as strangers .
20 Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design .
21 He knew that what he was seeing meant jobs for Cork , wage-packets for its workers , money for its shopkeepers , business for its tradesmen ; but , more than that , more even than the commerce that would result on a national scale , he saw it as history in action .
22 I mean he knew me as Brenda , my first name .
23 Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical .
24 There was another man with Sir Geoffrey , and he introduced him as Mr. James Henniker , of Pooley , Handyside and Henniker , the accountants .
25 There was only one other man in his room and he introduced him as George Apsley .
26 He introduced himself as Muhammad , the reis , the captain .
27 He introduced himself as Major Desmond Morton .
28 I walked to him and , as he pulled down the lower part of the head-wrap from across his mouth , he introduced himself as Idris .
29 ‘ D ’ , my husband , did n't accept me loving another girl when I told him I was a lesbian , but after a while he accepted me as Carla — 100 per cent .
30 From this brief survey it will be seen that Miller 's judgment was not confined to , nor his expertise solely directed towards , blooms of roses , ; rather he considered them as shrubs , studying their form of growth and additional bonus of foliage and fruit .
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