Example sentences of "[vb -s] i as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means , Luther said , God sees me as holy in Christ . |
| 2 | We probably wo n't get anywhere with this because the law sees me as just a man in a dress which is wrong |
| 3 | That 's what annoys me as much as anything . |
| 4 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 5 | Poring over a world atlas or 1:50,000 sheet gives me as much pleasure as actually visiting the places I dream about . |
| 6 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 7 | It always strikes me as odd that we are incredibly specific in our lives about the small things , ordering a sandwich for instance : we order type of bread , filling , relish , seasonings and extras . |
| 8 | Punch jokes have never been tremendously funny , but one particular line , ‘ Fostering prices start from just £14.95 ’ , strikes me as quite droll . |
| 9 | ‘ One thing strikes me as odd , Mr Newman , ’ he began , his manner officious . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith , it strikes me as less surprising thin they suggest . |
| 12 | ’ According to John Simon , the casting of Hoffman ‘ strikes me as ill-advised and damaging … |
| 13 | As a theory , it strikes me as ludicrous . |
| 14 | ‘ One thing strikes me as odd : why is Tehran missing from the list ? ’ |
| 15 | WELLINGS 'S claim ( WCM Aug ) that Graeme Hick 's failures have put ‘ pressure ’ on his England team-mates strikes me as somewhat baffling . |
| 16 | Along with the Etudes on the fourth disc is Children 's Corner , and here again the playing often strikes me as dull , as in the ‘ Serenade of the doll ’ and ‘ The snow is dancing ’ , which are both on the slow side . |
| 17 | It is Marquand 's enthusiasm for every initiative with a Euro-prefix that strikes me as old-fashioned . |
| 18 | When he emerges from the caravan , Pa 's reaction is not quite as imagined , and strikes me as rather odd . |
| 19 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 20 | without picking serious note of Freud , it 's a bit like you know discussing space high on gravitational without mentioning Einstein , I mean , you know th that 's wh what people seem to do , and it strikes me as ridiculous . |
| 21 | Er , but , you know , Freud discovered so much about consciousness and unconsciousness that erm , you ignore it , strikes me as just silly . |
| 22 | The idea to which my hon. Friend refers strikes me as excellent , and I am happy to support it . |
| 23 | Would , would , would would , but , I mean I 'm quite in favour of people having their genitals mutilated as adults , once they 're over eighteen , they go to hospital and sign a consent form and have it done as long as they pay for it themselves , but to do it to newborn children strikes me as outrageous . |
| 24 | ‘ I would like to believe that , Sir John , but it strikes me as false . ’ |
| 25 | Strangeness solicits me as much as familiarity repels ’ ( If It Die , 253 ) . |
| 26 | I know you never considered Madeleine was the right girl for me and no one in this whole world knows me as well as you do , so I ca n't ignore your opinion , even though I 'd like to . |
| 27 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |