Example sentences of "i [adv prt] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’ |
| 2 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse . |
| 4 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 5 | It was decided that he would take me in as an apprentice to old Bill ( Mr Carswell ) . |
| 6 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He wheeled me in as the star turn , ’ said Lydia indignantly when she got back . |
| 9 | ‘ Put me down as a ‘ do n't give a monkey 's ’ ’ |
| 10 | Put me down as a nutter , do . |
| 11 | Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’ |
| 12 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 13 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 14 | IF I tell you that this is the perfect time to go out and buy a record deck , you will no doubt put me down as the sort of person who invested heavily in Betamax video , eight-track tape and the Sinclair C5 : a sucker for doomed formats . |
| 15 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 17 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 18 | They set me up as a target . |
| 19 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 20 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 21 | Clearly , if I speak from my critical parent state too often , patronising you and moralising at you , directing you as a child , and you retaliate in a parent state and attempt to direct me back as a child , we 've got a ‘ crossed transaction ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
| 23 | Point me out as an oddity ? ’ |