Example sentences of "who have [verb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 2 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 3 | The audience who had loved him as a stage juvenile were themselves growing old , and could not fail to notice the signs of ageing in their idol . |
| 4 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 5 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 6 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 7 | The servants had taken pity on Alexandra , old Elsie especially who had nursed her as a baby and who now kept the linen cupboard , and helped in the kitchen ; and she had learned that her mother had married beneath her , far beneath , but that being over thirty and a cripple , she was , in a sense , lucky even to get James Abbott , if a man was what she wanted besides all she had already , castle and land and sheep . |
| 8 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 9 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 10 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 11 | It becomes less important to Picasso later on but it is something which is constant for Matisse and it has always been recognised by critics who have described him as a painter 's painter . |
| 12 | The partial ban has angered environmentalists and farm workers who have described it as a " cheap ploy " to allow Cheminova Agro to continue to produce 60 per cent of its current annual output of the pesticide . |
| 13 | Usually , those who have espoused it as a goal have had little interest in the idea of equalizing all the pupils of a school or an educational system , or indeed all the people in a particular country . |
| 14 | Bonar Law has usually received a bad press from historians , who have portrayed him as a hard , dour , humourless fanatic . |