Example sentences of "and [vb past] them as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canadian naturalist John Macoun explored the prairies in the 1850s and described them as ideal agricultural country . |
| 2 | At the Non-Aligned Summit the following year in Havana he demanded ‘ the termination of all imperialistic foreign military bases in the territory of others ’ and described them as ‘ being inconsistent with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries concerned ’ . |
| 3 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 4 | Keynes improvised the answers , and changed them as he went along . |
| 5 | He was their final court of appeal and punished them as he saw fit . |
| 6 | He then filmed and photographed them as they were enveloped by seaweed and marine concretions . |
| 7 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 8 | Mathematicians , wisely foreseeing such difficulties , worked out the theory of a number of special functions and tabulated them as well . |
| 9 | Dad went indoors and brought out her belongings and placed them as she directed . |
| 10 | It 's the resting place of 4 of the 5 youngsters who died when a speeding car went out of control in Akers Way and hit them as they played at the side of the road . |
| 11 | We grew up viewing them with contempt , and saw them as preoccupied with money so they could ‘ better themselves ’ . |
| 12 | Most headhunters originally left their positions in industry at the behest of a headhunting firm who needed more consultants and saw them as fitting the bill . |
| 13 | The artist has taken details — a window , a shadow , a curtain , bathroom tiles — and rendered them as dark brooding abstractions . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , certain commentators ( particularly Atkinson , 1984 ; Meager , 1985 ) have seized upon these or similar examples and Presented them as showing the direction which personnel policy ( and here their writings are rather unclear ) is , or should be taking to cope with the challenges posed by a rapidly changing , increasingly competitive economic environment . |
| 15 | She looked at 100 village plans and assessed them as regular or partly regular . |