Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has employed you as a guide . |
| 2 | " Now you are truly betrothed , Sara , for this is a keepsake from Dom João , and he has sent it as a token of his promise to make you his wife . " |
| 3 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 4 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 5 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 6 | He has shown himself as a devoted family man ; Ms Campbell is twice divorced and childless . |
| 7 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |
| 8 | He 'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd described her as ‘ an intriguing challenge ’ , she remembered now with a frown . |
| 11 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 12 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
| 13 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 14 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 15 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 16 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 17 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 18 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 19 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 20 | In his deliberations whether to sell or keep on the mill as a holiday home he had seen it as a refuge from London , eccentric and remote , providing a temporary escape from the demands of his job and the pressures of success . |
| 21 | Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold . |
| 22 | Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse . |
| 23 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 24 | He had used it as a conveyance . |
| 25 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 26 | Last night she had told Roger that her name was Bridget ; yet to the Blessington-Dalrymples he had introduced her as Breeze . |
| 27 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 28 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 29 | Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph . |
| 30 | He had signed himself as a signature on the ark . |