Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 3 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 4 | Moving from her external trappings to her internal structure , he represents her as a sort of wooden skeleton . |
| 5 | He would work with Kate Miskin loyally and conscientiously because he respected her as a detective and that was what he was required to do . |
| 6 | No , Steen 's behaviour certainly suggested that he regarded her as a threat in some way . |
| 7 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 8 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 9 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 11 | However , he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline , and old habits died hard . |
| 12 | He regarded it as a fairly accurate way of weeding out the pretenders from the cream of Europe 's opulent elite . |
| 13 | He regarded it as a testable conjecture . |
| 14 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 15 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 16 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 17 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
| 18 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 19 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 20 | The film became the American entry , by invitation , into that year 's Venice film festival and the New York Times ' critic , Bosley Crowther , summed up his nation 's embarrassment when he described it as a ‘ brutal picture which caused diplomats to mop their brows — a vicious account of boozing , fighting , pot-smoking , vandalizing and raping done by a gang of sickle riders who are obviously drawn to represent the swastika-wearing Hell 's Angels , one of several disreputable gangs on the west coast . |
| 21 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 22 | He described it as a ‘ Budget for sustained recovery and a Budget for jobs — not just for this year or for next year — but right through the decade . ’ |
| 23 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 24 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 25 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 26 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 27 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 28 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 29 | And , if so , would he recognise them as a warning that Doreen was not the right woman for him ? |
| 30 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |