Example sentences of "with [pron] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not with me as a person .
2 How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple .
3 ‘ You were n't particularly impressed either with racing or with me as a driver , were you ? ’
4 Got sod all to do with me as a S A U.
5 With me as the guest of honour , and piece de resistance .
6 In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’
7 shells disinter the bodies , then reinter them , chop them to pieces , play with them as a cat plays with a mouse .
8 The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income .
9 He says : ‘ Writers like Richard Streeton tell me they carry it around with them as a work of reference , using it to find out whether odd events have happened before .
10 or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . "
11 I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets .
12 Legal executive Liza , 24 , said the Bosnian army would not let 25-year-old boxer Senad Pezerovic , who had fought with them as a volunteer , travel to Austria to get a visa for Britain .
13 ‘ You have to choose the correct mill to begin with and work very closely with them as a partner , ’ she said .
14 starting with them as a basis .
15 The royal commission which was established to review the whole situation included two sympathetic members — Frederic Harrison and Thomas Hughes [ qq.v. ] — and Applegarth worked closely with them as a counter to the evidence of individual employers and their association .
16 Please could you take this matter up with them as a matter of urgency and arrange for the seat to be re-instated .
17 Please could you take this matter up with them as a matter of urgency and arrange for the seat to be re-instated .
18 And it was to my utter disgust that a member of the media described our game with them as a derby !
19 Served with them as a conductor er for about approximately four years er and the experiences I had er as a conductor were many and varied er er if you do er recall er the old tramcars er the fares were n't in comparison today .
20 But he , whose contribution to the history of these mountains now matches theirs , could not then mingle with them as an equal .
21 I felt truly honoured to be asked on The Morecambe and Wise Show and I still do — I regard my appearance with them as the apotheosis of my career and I do n't say that lightly or gratuitously .
22 All World Bank financial data are converted into US dollars , and this is , indeed , one serious problem with them as the bank itself acknowledges ( see , for example , World Development Report , 1988 , pp.290–1 ) .
23 But , supposing we look at the same material from the standpoint of , say the authors of the Upanishads , with whom as a matter of fact I happen to agree .
24 He could tell endless tales , normally with himself as the butt .
25 His film of Henry V , with himself as the rabble rousing monarch backed by a troupe of glittering British heavyweights , opens on October 6 .
26 Manson was so pleased with the ensuing panic that rippled through Hollywood after the murders were discovered that he organised another raid , this time with himself as the leader .
27 William Booth , a Methodist local preacher , began evangelical and rescue work in the East End of London in 1865 , and that eventually led , in 1878 to the first formation of the Salvation Army , with himself as the General in charge .
28 Hornblower is no more comfortable with himself as an admiral , commodore of a Baltic convoy , than he was as a junior captain .
29 You could win a week at Springs Hydro — and bring a friend or partner along with you as a part of the prize .
30 That does n't happen when someone works with you as a director , and Jack was like a director , too .
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