Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 2 | There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit . |
| 3 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 4 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |
| 5 | How can I have dreamed it as a six-year-old ? |
| 6 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 7 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 8 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 9 | Elizabeth : I 'm here not representing anything , but I do define myself as a revolutionary and radical feminist . |
| 10 | I do see it as a delay even though w I 'm gon na learn and my technique 'll improve a hundred percent . |
| 11 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 12 | I did see him as a six year old child . |
| 13 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 14 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 15 | And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband ! |
| 16 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 17 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 18 | My flatmate moved out a month ago , and in that month I 've used it as an excuse to binge . |
| 19 | Well in this I 've got her as the , dim twit . |
| 20 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 21 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 22 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 23 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 24 | I have described myself as a loner with the profession of an artist-writer . |
| 25 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 26 | Binoculars show that it is very highly coloured ; telescopically I have described it as an orange blob , quite unlike a normal star . |
| 27 | I intended to present him as an attractive personality — the sort of man who is very charming , hospitable , physically attractive to a lot of women . |
| 28 | It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’ |
| 29 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 30 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |