Example sentences of "he [verb] them as a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " .
4 And , if so , would he recognise them as a warning that Doreen was not the right woman for him ?
5 He scorned them as a man of action must despise all faint-hearts .
6 Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ .
7 Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm .
8 He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire .
9 Perhaps he saw them as a threat .
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