Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 5 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have no hesitation whatsoever in presenting Christian Timms to you as the new lord of Swinbrook Manor , and owner of the Fettiplace lands . ’ |
| 8 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 9 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 10 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 11 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 12 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
| 13 | We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve . |
| 14 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 15 | We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming . |
| 16 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 17 | Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals . |