Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |
| 2 | By fifty percent , but I certainly would n't be I certainly would n't be referring to them as a peripheral area . |
| 3 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 4 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 5 | When the industry 's senior engineers and managers met him , he appeared to them as a strong-willed , humourless , puritanical idealist , but he was sane , reasonable and had a strong sense of the practical realities of power . |
| 6 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 7 | On a personal note , in my very early days on the staff of Ipswich Art School , Squirrell was teaching and I have very fond memories of the kindness and helpfulness which this most likeable man extended to me as a new boy . |
| 8 | The people look to me as a new Messiah . |
| 9 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 10 | ‘ To me as a Peruvian , ’ David said , his deep , brown eyes alive with the topic , ‘ nationalism means Manu , means biological diversity . |
| 11 | They inter-linked into a plasma of enormous strength , and to me as a young man they formed a Mafia that made the Sicilian one look like choirboys . |
| 12 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 13 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 14 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 15 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 17 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 18 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 19 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 20 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 21 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 22 | ‘ Never look about you as you go , ’ was old Haverford 's advice , ‘ and then arriving will come to you as a total surprise . |
| 23 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 24 | The bid that to you as a specific grant next year will then itself be absorbed into the base for the following year , and there will be a new specific grant . |
| 25 | An example you would do well to learn from , if this sort of book appeals to you as a potential writer , is the Inspector Dover novels of Joyce Porter . |
| 26 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 27 | It 's got to be meaningful to you as an individual , otherwise it wo n't work . |
| 28 | I appeal to you as an honorary Roman to nip over here in your Popemobile and put a stop to this wanton destruction . |
| 29 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 30 | I have no hesitation whatsoever in presenting Christian Timms to you as the new lord of Swinbrook Manor , and owner of the Fettiplace lands . ’ |