Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] as " in BNC.

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1 This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans .
2 She called him Fred while he addressed her as Gladys — names which they picked from the Spike Milligan radio shows .
3 It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles .
4 It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act .
5 Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained .
6 Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name .
7 And Mr Redwood clashed with MPs when he refused to lift the capping charge , imposed by David Hunt before he replaced him as Welsh Secretary .
8 In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany .
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