Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually established himself as a regular first team player for the Parkhead club before he was transferred to Manchester United in 1973 . |
| 2 | He successfully ran it as what he wished it to remain , the last of the medieval halls ; he never wanted it to have full collegiate status . |
| 3 | He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings . |
| 4 | Innocent " postulated " Mauger , i.e. using his plenitude of power , he personally nominated him as bishop , dispensing him from his impediment . |
| 5 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 6 | He … he only sees me as a … a dear friend . |
| 7 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 8 | He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it . |
| 9 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 10 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 11 | But if a silvery , bulging-bellied stickleback stays he soon recognizes it as a female , and changes from attack to courtship . |
| 12 | Phil joined the Palace in February 1984 for a modest £10,000 fee from Aylesbury Town , but he soon established himself as a valuable member of our League side , playing either on the left of midfield or up front as a striker , and he must probably be reckoned to be the best signing made for our club by manager Alan Mullery . |
| 13 | His first poems followed the Petrarchan tradition of his uncle , but he soon established himself as a versatile playwright , capable of producing dramas , pastorals , masques and , above all , comedies . |
| 14 | Had n't he already described himself as ‘ a political animal ’ — ‘ and with £19.50p attendance money a day as a Sheffield councillor , on which I 'm dependent by the way , I 'd need to be a political animal . ’ |
| 15 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 16 | He still described himself as a private tutor and the purpose of his journey abroad as ‘ holiday touring ’ . |
| 17 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 18 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 19 | It was recorded by a convict who was on the island at the time that ‘ the Governor had the goodwill and respect of everyone for he always conducted himself as a Christian and a gentlemen . ’ |
| 20 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 21 | But he always leaves it as if he is n't expecting to come back in the morning . " |
| 22 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 23 | He once described himself as the ‘ grandfather ’ of that generation of Tories that includes Michael Forsyth and Michael Fallon , a phrase that embarrasses him now . |
| 24 | First known as a Romantic painter of German landscape , he also distinguished himself as a set designer , an architect and a designer of churches . |
| 25 | He also struck me as a man who gave the most mature thought before uttering even one of these rare words ; and that if you said ‘ good morning ’ to him , he would reflect for some seconds while a number of questions passed through his mind . |
| 26 | But as Hurst has emphasised ( 1976 , pp. 292 ) such pottery ‘ presents a serious problem ’ for it is often so fragmentary or ‘ unstratified ’ , so as to make study difficult ; he also describes them as ‘ cooking-pots ’ . |
| 27 | Right from the days of the early caveman when he used fire not only for cooking but he also used it as means of lighting and keeping his family warm er during the winter months . |
| 28 | He also fancied himself as an inventor — a pastime that had his mother caught between maternal pride and an almost uncontrollable urge to murder him . |
| 29 | He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion . |
| 30 | He repeatedly expresses himself as awestruck by nature and by the contemplation of truth , and as having a , a desire to worship something outside himself . |