Example sentences of "[pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 2 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 3 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 4 | and you will only have me as a stranger |
| 5 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 6 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 8 | ‘ Please do n't portray me as some flashy Vegas gambler who 's plopping into the White House in Italian suits and expensive watches , ’ Mr Rogich told a reporter from The New York Times from his car phone . |
| 9 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
| 10 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 11 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 13 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 14 | The important issue for me as chairman throughout that period was to remember that once the Prime Minister had said that Westland was a private-sector problem which must be solved by private-sector measures and techniques , one 's interests were obviously the shareholders , the employees , the customers and the banks , since the company was heavily indebted . |
| 15 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 16 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 17 | A Cameroonian schoolboy saluted me as his ‘ heavenly brother ’ . |
| 18 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 19 | The men are trying to catch mine and hook themselves on to me as ‘ guides ’ . |
| 20 | B : If you 'd left me as captain , none of it would have happened . |
| 21 | Bob looked at me as if only a muppet would ask a question like that . |
| 22 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 23 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 24 | Also , I often feel I gain from venomously critical views of me as an artist , more than from dithery , sloppily fawning , supportive views . ’ |
| 25 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 26 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 27 | He chose me as his master , which appealed to me enormously , as it 's one of my functions in life to be a teacher , so I was very happy at being this kind of pedagogue . |
| 28 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 29 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 30 | Nor do they do a lot for me as erogenous zones . |