Example sentences of "[vb past] me as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 2 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 3 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 4 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 5 | My mother , wild with exasperation , one day again described me as a lump . |
| 6 | Does the Chief Secretary remember the October 1974 general election when he was my opponent in West Bromwich and then described me as a militant ? |
| 7 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 8 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 9 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 10 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 11 | They probably imagined me as the gentleman flasher in the park ! ’ |
| 12 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 13 | ‘ I have come , ’ I ventured to say , but the mother-in-law briskly discounted me as a person , and would not let me see the doctor . |
| 14 | ‘ It was my father who encouraged me as a high jumper . |
| 15 | ‘ Growling horribly close to my ear , he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat , ’ he wrote . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 17 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 18 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 19 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 20 | The GMC called me as an expert witness . |
| 21 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 22 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
| 23 | You saw me as a challenge — a little harder than the rest , perhaps , but there for the taking , nevertheless . |
| 24 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 25 | My wife supported me , but my in-law 's saw me as an engineer . |
| 26 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 27 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 28 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 29 | They treated me as an intruder . ’ |
| 30 | Many women admired my strength and the men , slightly awed , treated me as an honorary male . |