Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 2 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 3 | However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta 's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks as though he had a woman friend ; he refers to her as ‘ M ’ . |
| 5 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 6 | She says that he thinks of her as Mum . |
| 7 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 8 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 9 | He thinks of it as a link in ‘ the great chain of Being ’ , a medieval idea which survived into the eighteenth century ( see A. O. Lovejoy 's book of the same title ) . |
| 10 | Blanche feels that the only way that she will be able to marry Mitch is if he looks on her as someone still young . |
| 11 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 12 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 13 | God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality . |
| 14 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 15 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 16 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 17 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 18 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 19 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 20 | In any case , the clear separation of the Bank from all others was well enough indicated by Lord North in 1781 when he referred to it as " a part of the constitution " and " to all intents and purposes the public exchequer " . |
| 21 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 22 | He entered into it as if for sanctuary . |
| 23 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 24 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 25 | ‘ But must he look at me as if I am the murderer ? ’ |
| 26 | Each gets a final polish with his cloth , and he grins into them as if they were mirrors . |
| 27 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 28 | He takes to it as a duck takes to water . |
| 29 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 30 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |