Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 2 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 3 | To coincide with this , he relaunched himself as Revd Fr. |
| 4 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 5 | He — um — he appointed you as his special envoy , you see — gave you carte blanche as far as time was concerned ; in fact he insisted that your entire stay here from day one should be regarded as being on company business . ’ |
| 6 | There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine . |
| 7 | He would work with Kate Miskin loyally and conscientiously because he respected her as a detective and that was what he was required to do . |
| 8 | God moved in mysterious ways — to Richie he manifested himself as an extremely successful car salesman . |
| 9 | No , Steen 's behaviour certainly suggested that he regarded her as a threat in some way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 14 | He regarded himself as ‘ a bit of an antiquarian ’ but excavation was beyond his experience , so he called in John Barber , Classics Master at Oakham School who had dug in Greece with the British School at Athens . |
| 15 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 16 | He regarded you as an opponent whom he was determined to get the better of , in whichever way he could . ’ |
| 17 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 18 | However , he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline , and old habits died hard . |
| 19 | He regarded it as a fairly accurate way of weeding out the pretenders from the cream of Europe 's opulent elite . |
| 20 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 21 | He regarded it as a testable conjecture . |
| 22 | He regarded it as an investment . |
| 23 | Specifically it was , he regarded it as kind of transmuted libido . |
| 24 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 25 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 26 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 27 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 28 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 29 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 30 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |