Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 5 | If it were as close to us as the Orion Nebula , it would cast shadows . |