Example sentences of "him as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found a mirror , stuck candles at either side of it and sat , naked , before it , the sweat drying on him as the warm undulation of night air moved into the room . |
| 2 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 3 | Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome . |
| 4 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 5 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 6 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 7 | In 1986 deep-sea researcher Jacques Cousteau selected him as the still photographer for the research ship Calypso |
| 8 | However , it is because Leavis provided a purpose for English that most people regard him as the central figure . |
| 9 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 10 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 11 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 12 | Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait . |
| 13 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 14 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 15 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 16 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 17 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 18 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 19 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 20 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 21 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 22 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 23 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 24 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 25 | Some of Pugachev 's followers identified him as the true Tsar , Peter III . |
| 26 | Share My Lettuce boasts an original if rather undernourished droll in Kenneth Williams ( remember him as the alarming brat in The Buccaneer ? |
| 27 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 28 | Marx 's internationalism paralleled what was identified by him as the leading sector of capitalism , the international . |
| 29 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 30 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |