Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he treat you as an equal ? ’ |
| 2 | God moved in mysterious ways — to Richie he manifested himself as an extremely successful car salesman . |
| 3 | He regarded you as an opponent whom he was determined to get the better of , in whichever way he could . ’ |
| 4 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 5 | He regarded it as an investment . |
| 6 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 7 | He described it as an ‘ unfortunate incident ’ which could be solved by the introduction of a new rule at the league 's annual meeting . |
| 8 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 9 | Tony signalled her not to annoy Frank in case he used it as an excuse to follow Terry , but he only seemed amused . |
| 10 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 11 | He describes them as an investment , but critics describe the paintings as worthless rubbish . |
| 12 | He imagined himself as an officer , in command of Valence and Tundrish . |
| 13 | He sees them as an ‘ albums ’ band but would like them to have Top 10 hits in the singles charts . |
| 14 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 15 | He sees him as an idealist , likes his ‘ spark ’ . |
| 16 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 17 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
| 18 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 19 | He saw himself as an empiricist , attacking such woolly concepts as ‘ natural equality ’ and the imaginary ‘ state of nature ’ beloved of the political philosophers . |
| 20 | He saw himself as an engineer architect . |
| 21 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 22 | When Ramond de Carbonnières came to Campan , in the later eighteenth century , he saw it as an Arcadia , both for the excellence of its pasture and for the independent spirit of its peasantry , whose self-sufficiency seemed a model to this fundamentally democratic man . |
| 23 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 24 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
| 25 | But he acquired it as an onlooker . |
| 26 | He presents himself as an individualist , who only later and almost reluctantly becomes aware of the wider aspects of the war as a battle for civilization and humanity . |
| 27 | The blow to English arms was bitter , and he felt it as an insult to his own person . |
| 28 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |
| 30 | At the beginning of the book Celie despises her husband , Albert , because of the way he treats her as an object . |