Example sentences of "them [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Our hearer may even reject them outright as false . |
2 | In order to keep things that way , the agency was obliged to keep track of other US intelligence operations that might prove embarrassing and to head them off as necessary . |
3 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
4 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
5 | Beside Charlie on the floor was a pile of clothes from which he pulled jackets , macs and shirts before throwing them aside as unsuitable . |
6 | The Glosters held them back as long as they could . |
7 | One of Assad 's closest confidantes ( and Monzer al-Kassar 's brother-in-law ) , Dubah was the cartel 's principal enforcer , frequently co-opting Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC , the Abu Nidal faction and other Palestinian terrorist groups to do his dirty work as well as using them routinely as part-time agents in his ‘ legitimate ’ intelligence operations . |
8 | ‘ We 'll hold them here as long as we can . ’ |
9 | This policy indicated that princes were ceasing to regard their demesnes , those ragbags of rights and scattered pieces of land , chiefly as means of buying support , whether on earth or in heaven , and were viewing them instead as permanent assets , to be cultivated in a more business-like fashion . |
10 | Hence they were also called Dualists and the Church condemned them accordingly as heretical in their beliefs . |
11 | He viewed them universally as dismal , dirty , draughty places where unpleasant incidents frequently occurred , especially on Sundays . |
12 | Was he perhaps viewing them hallucinatorily as fellow Lordly Phantasms about to behold a fight between mind-slaves , between living puppets operated by the spectators ? |