Example sentences of "was [verb] to [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 3 | The watch was given to me as a surety by Meredith Putt , lord of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 4 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 5 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 6 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Abraham ‘ believed God , and it was reckoned to him as righteousness ’ ( Galatians 3.6 ) . |
| 9 | Everyone 's face was turned to him as if he was their last chance . |
| 10 | Her pale , plain face was turned to him as a flower turns to the sun . |
| 11 | It was presented to them as a detective game in which they were encouraged to help the Pink Panther to solve some mysteries . |
| 12 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 13 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 14 | She knew he was speaking to her as if she were either an idiot or a child but the momentary fight had quite gone and she just nodded , looking up at him . |
| 15 | He was introduced to it as a game played in the garden before coming north from Devon in 1970 . |
| 16 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 17 | It may mean ‘ this is a role which was ascribed to me as a woman and which I resented ’ . |
| 18 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 19 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 20 | She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable . |
| 21 | If I was talking to you as my pal , I 'd get done for idling my time . |
| 22 | It was sent to me as a review copy . |
| 23 | When it was suggested to them as a possibility it was understood by them as an opportunity for a breathing space in the absence of any other alternative . |