Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] him as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 2 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 3 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 4 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 5 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 6 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 7 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 8 | It is characteristic of Milton to wish his audience to see him as a writer familiar with highly regarded literary writing and able to employ it to more serious purpose than it had been previously . |
| 9 | Now he was happy enough to let Rickards impose on his solitude to use him as a sounding board . |
| 10 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 11 | His admirers applaud him as the ‘ people 's lawyer ’ , the first solicitor in Britain to realize that victims of disasters have more chance of success if they stand and fight collectively . |