Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 2 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
| 3 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 4 | Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims . |
| 5 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 6 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 7 | I therefore contacted a literary agent , Al Zuckerman , who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague . |
| 8 | Everything points to me as the murderer , the rapist . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not often , ’ said Hugh with a rueful smile , ‘ that I must listen to you as the devil 's advocate , where a youngster in trouble is concerned . |
| 10 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 11 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 12 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 13 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 14 | Madeleine had no intention of agreeing to this suggestion and , throughout the long journey back in the car , she remained as close to him as the gear lever allowed , and whenever an opportunity presented itself , leant over and kissed his cheek . |
| 15 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 16 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 17 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 18 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 19 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 20 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 21 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 22 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 25 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 26 | As known to her as the door of the flat . |
| 27 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 28 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 29 | Baldersdale was en fête , or as near to it as the dale ever came , when Guardsman George Fawcett arrived back somewhat unexpectedly , from the war . |
| 30 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |