Example sentences of "[adv] regard [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there are some men who will naturally regard you as an equal . |
| 2 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 3 | I think he probably did not so regard it for he said : ‘ She is independent minded and strong minded enough for her will not to be readily overborne by her husband . ’ |
| 4 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 5 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |
| 6 | He apparently regarded me and one or two others as his brighter prospects . |
| 7 | Despite this , when we first learn about her it is her ‘ bossy female voice ’ which is brought to our attention , as well as the low esteem with which the boys apparently regard her , ‘ Faff off Audrey Parton ’ . |
| 8 | Today we often ignore large areas of terraced housing and merely regard it as ‘ late nineteenth-century development ’ , forgetting perhaps that most of the population was then housed in them and indeed still is today . |
| 9 | The indignation has a strained and petty air about it : Joe 's greatest crime does not seem to be his contribution to the deaths of 21 servicemen but his letting down his son , who can no longer regard him as a hero . |
| 10 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 11 | The Apache is better than most in this respect but I would nevertheless regard it as an excellent-four seater with the fifth seat reserved for occasions when no baggage is being carried . |
| 12 | An alternative theory , and one which , if true , must sadden him , is that China no longer regards him as a threat . |
| 13 | Generally , infertility does not come as a sudden cut-off point ; rather it declines gradually , and when it is observed we have to look for the cause in the interdependence breakdown , and not just regard it as a shortage of one or other nutrients . |
| 14 | Staff are dedicated to their work and generally regard it as vocational , having to cope with frail and sometimes difficult people in their declining years , and , on occasions , the reality of death . |
| 15 | And after — what ? — fifteen , twenty years , there was that in her altered manner that showed she could still regard him with affection . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think anybody will ever regard me as a BBC insider , ’ he insists . |
| 17 | I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right . |
| 18 | She had always regarded her purely as a teacher , a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again . |
| 19 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 20 | The British Government professed to ‘ have always regarded it as desirable that these elections should be held and have advised the Government of the Republic of [ South ] Vietnam to enter into consultation with the Viet Minh authorities [ sic ] in order to ensure that all the necessary conditions obtain for a free expression of the national will ’ . |
| 21 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 22 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 23 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 24 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 25 | But the Gloucesters still regarded him as one of theirs . |
| 26 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 27 | Some of the old guard ashore still regarded us as playboys though , and resented the money that was being spent on the new boats and their equipment . |
| 28 | The criminal law took a strong line against duelling in the nineteenth century , despite the notions of honour which still regarded it as appropriate or correct for settling certain disputes . |
| 29 | Though the federal government still regards them as criminals , some Americans view the guerilla needle exchangers as heroes . |
| 30 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |