Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or what 's that word that Lizzie — 'er as married my grandson — ‘ as picked up ? |
| 2 | The dog sees you as challenging its perceived dominance in the family arena , and may well turn on you when threatened , in the same way that it would a rival pack member which does not back down in the wild . |
| 3 | To earn her displeasure was to forgo all delight ; through the days Nicandra devised love tokens , as much to stimulate interest towards herself as to express her deep affection . |
| 4 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |
| 5 | The faces along the table started to look like the masks of animals in a zoo and struck him as needing his help to get out . |
| 6 | Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters . |
| 7 | Dexter noticed her hand was shaking faintly and she struck him as keeping her self-control with great difficulty . |
| 8 | A sum like this , though , would eat such a hole in it as to jeopardize his ordinary work . |
| 9 | They would far rather think of it as realising their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 10 | Of course tiredness affects it as do my periods and the time of the day even . |
| 11 | She had seen the initial stage of the assessment process as an opportunity to enhance her role in the decision-making but saw it as restricting her power . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 'd always seen myself as leaving my body to medical science . ’ |
| 13 | Incidentally , I should before now have explained myself as regards my referring to ‘ Miss Kenton ’ . |
| 14 | The colleges have , in overcoming the crises of the 1970s , already significantly repositioned themselves as regards their contribution to the professional life of the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 15 | With hindsight we can envisage them as biding their time , as it were , until their reptilian competitors disappeared . |
| 16 | BRC frequently relay wrong information ( primarily because they receive wrong information ) , and wider societal divisions ensure that the main mode of transport in Easton , as elsewhere , is reinforced Land Rovers in order to afford occupants some protection from attack , although policemen and women see them as having their own vulnerabilities . |
| 17 | Will teachers have sufficient respect for them as to make their judgements acceptable ? |