Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 2 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 3 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 4 | ‘ They seemed to accept him as a father figure . ’ |
| 5 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 6 | I mean that 's why we went on a Thursday and they 'd changed their as a chap that seems very strange to me ! |
| 7 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 8 | The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others . |
| 9 | They began to see him as an increasingly unreliable tyrant — which to some extent was true . |
| 10 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 11 | And that 's when you really start getting problems and they start treating something as a continuous function , and it 's not . |
| 12 | Well they 've allocated you as a grocer , he said , but you 're not a grocer . |
| 13 | ‘ When they had read the publicity material offering help for the recently bereaved they had read it as an opportunity to be out and meet people again . |
| 14 | In Nanking also , they had to build them as a safety measure , but they have either been dismantled or moved out of sight . |
| 15 | But they have to take it as a fact , and it is a fact which prevents them from envisaging our liquidation . " |
| 16 | They have seen it as an arrangement whereby some gain at the expense of others . |
| 17 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 18 | They have to run it as a business now . |
| 19 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |