Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 32 | Starting from an implicit acceptance of Roman rule they interpreted it as responsible contemporaries , having regard to the needs and interests of the Greek upper class . |
| 33 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 34 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 35 | They saw themselves as secondary earners , supplementing the male wage earner ( all but one were married ) . |
| 36 | When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 37 | Asked whether they saw themselves as feminist film-makers , for example , the four ( predictably ) came up with four different answers ranging from an unequivocal ‘ yes ’ to an almost indignant ‘ no ’ . |
| 38 | On the Northampton sites , they see themselves as exemplary green folk , since they make fewer demands on environmentally destructive goods and services than most of us . |
| 39 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 40 | They see it as important part of improving the service they give . |
| 41 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 42 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 43 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 44 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 45 | He sees them as little jokes , the same way he sees Miro . |
| 46 | She was n't coming to London with him and nor would he recommend her as Administrative Officer at Larksoken . |
| 47 | And Mr Redwood clashed with MPs when he refused to lift the capping charge , imposed by David Hunt before he replaced him as Welsh Secretary . |
| 48 | Michael Sendivogius was imprisoned by the Emperor Rudolph on pain of yielding his secrets , and it was he who wrote what struck me as fair comment on the Hermetic enterprise in an imaginary complaint of the alchemist to Nature : |
| 49 | The Khedive has a number of sons and all of them see themselves as potential heirs . ’ |