Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But while people think of me perhaps as just a guitar producer who does n't go anywhere near sequencers , I actually use them quite a lot . |
| 2 | How nice it was to be able to use all of the pedestrian walkways and see the beauty of them just as the planners visualised . |
| 3 | About three quarters of asylum claimants are already in the country , many of them legitimately as students or visitors and some of them illegitimately , as they have entered the country illegally . |
| 4 | I often think of them now as I share a strawberry daiquiri with Morrissey and Loz from Kingmaker in the Hyatt Buenos Aires . |
| 5 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 6 | Had this been any other occasion , he would have lowered his head respectfully and more or less closed his eyes , watching Bill Brice out of the corner of them so as to know when to open them again , and murmuring amen where appropriate . |
| 7 | He was heaved out of his almost as soon as he regained consciousness . |
| 8 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 9 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 10 | We 'd get a confession out of him easy as blinking . |
| 11 | Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river . |
| 12 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 13 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 14 | A newly-wed husband legally acquired all his wife 's real and personal property , and he could dispose of it exactly as he thought fit . |
| 15 | Heywood was unsure whether SSDs would be able to make use of it fully as they are overwhelmed with the amount of present legislation and have ‘ homophobic views ’ to overcome . |
| 16 | When Jess holds the ball , looking for men to beat , the truly hooked observer is caught in that exquisite dilemma of wishing he 'd get rid of it so as not to risk failure , while at the same time hoping he 'll carry on regardless and do something outrageous . |
| 17 | I 'm staying as far out of it all as I can . |
| 18 | The old rhetoric of disdainful dismissal , the one that grouped all of us together as ‘ cranks ’ , ‘ lunatics ’ , ‘ freaks ’ , or simple-minded members of an addled army of ‘ little old ladies in tennis shoes ’ — this old rhetoric is dead , or dying . |