Example sentences of "he [verb] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them . |
| 2 | A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) . |
| 3 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 4 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 5 | Too easy , he realised as the metal panel dropped behind him . |
| 6 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |
| 7 | He laughs as the figures , unable to resist , are subjected to the torments they most fear . |
| 8 | Shall we dance some more ? ’ he asked as the record finally came to an end . |
| 9 | He locates the origins of the sociology of knowledge in the work of Hegel and Marx , whom he regarded as the philosophers most prominent and influential in the historicist tradition . |
| 10 | There had been the row over Ray Honeyford 's diatribes against what he regarded as the nightmare of multiculturalism imposed on well-intentioned schools by a combination of the race relations industry and ‘ volatile ’ , ‘ half-educated ’ Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents ( Honey ford , 1983 , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | In November 1340 Edward returned to England , furious at what he regarded as the mismanagement of government during his absence . |
| 12 | Constantius was determined to exact retribution , not only on those who attempted to usurp his authority , but also on paganism , which he regarded as the root of all opposition to the Imperial House and its Christian tenets . |
| 13 | He set great store by what he regarded as the dignity of the athlete , treating his players as human beings instead of mere paid servants , which was how most other players were regarded elsewhere . |
| 14 | His arena was agriculture , over which he presided as the USSR 's scientific and administrative chief from the mid-1930s until Stalin 's death in 1953 . |
| 15 | The minister himself recognizes this portrait but delights in the political clout he has as the treasury man on many such committees , able to range over the whole field of policy . |
| 16 | Emerging from the chemist , he winced as the morning sun danced around his brain . |
| 17 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 18 | In an earlier meeting with political leaders ( including opposition figures ) , Rodríguez had requested support for land reform which he described as the country 's most pressing problem , but he insisted on respect for private property rights , as well as the squatters ' vacation of the occupied land , before such reforms could be implemented . |
| 19 | Having constructed a working model , as it were , he left his conscious mind to one side and relied upon his ear — what he described as the interdependence of rhythm and diction , or the recognition of meaning when it is embodied in cadence . |
| 20 | In his opening address Diouf pledged firm action against what he described as the dangers of " secessionism and fundamentalism of all kinds " , a reference to the mounting insurgency in Casamance province [ see below ] . |
| 21 | In a letter to The Scotsman , James Hood , the MP for Clydesdale , condemned what he described as the media 's continued barrage of attacks on Mr Clarke . |
| 22 | Speculation indeed he described as the disease of the age ; he never preached about predestination . |
| 23 | President Chissano was critical of what he described as the MNR 's " delaying tactics " . |
| 24 | Deputy Foreign Minster Ali Mohammed Besharati responded to the visit by referring to what he described as the UN human rights commission 's constant criticism of Iran , which he implied was politically motivated . |
| 25 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 26 | These developments of the soil system were achieved within soil science but adoption and development of the approach in physical geography was achieved by Huggett ( 1975 ) when he extended the catena approach to the drainage basin , which he used as the basis for a model of the soil system , and attempted to simulate the flux of plasmic material in an idealized basin . |
| 27 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 28 | We saw his glory , the glory which he received as the Father 's only Son . |
| 29 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 30 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |