Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 2 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 3 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 4 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 5 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 6 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 7 | He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years . |
| 8 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 9 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 10 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 11 | Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion . |
| 12 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 13 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
| 14 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
| 15 | He took it as the closing of the incident . |
| 16 | In discussing Dürer , he treated him as the most versatile artist of a triumvirate , whose other members were Marcantonio Raimondi and Lucas van Leyden . |
| 17 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 18 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 19 | He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action . |
| 20 | He saw himself as the political leader of the Evangelicals , but in reality his views were too extreme and his style too combative for him to command general support . |
| 21 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 22 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 23 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 24 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 25 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 26 | In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries . |
| 27 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 28 | Thompson on the other hand was keen to await the Great Eastern 's launch , for he envisioned it as the ideal cable-layer . |
| 29 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 30 | His own experiences crowd upon him , even from earliest infancy ; he recognizes them as the sources of his own creative powers ; it is as if doors were ‘ open ’ . |