Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I 'd always seen myself as leaving my body to medical science . ’ |
| 2 | They are generally thought to be striking at Hipparchos not shown , an interesting but rather surprising concept ; one might rather see them as defending themselves against the bodyguard which cut them down . |
| 3 | With hindsight we can envisage them as biding their time , as it were , until their reptilian competitors disappeared . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the clinical teacher sees her role as a trainer developing competence then objectives can be applied ; but if she sees herself as providing something more than this , perhaps aiding and encouraging the development of the nurse as an autonomous person within the context of nursing , then she will go beyond the stage where objectives can be applied . |
| 6 | As much to find out how much Sasser had told him as to learn what Hurley was up to , Coleman agreed , and over a sandwich from the embassy canteen in Hurley 's basement office , discovered that the DEA attaché was trying to put together a videotape documenting narcotics production in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 7 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 8 | Of course tiredness affects it as do my periods and the time of the day even . |
| 9 | She hoped he did n't interpret them as telling him to mind his own business . |
| 10 | Why not interpret her as expressing something tantamount to ‘ I have an unfulfilled desire ’ , or , ‘ make me feel nice ! ’ ? |
| 11 | Er because having written half the songs as well , the lyrics all mean something so I may as well have spoken them as sung them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Michelle Phillips moved in ; according to Bruce Dern , Jack seemed to want to believe that they were the couple , made for each other ; he saw them as having it all , on his own terms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century . |
| 17 | Such reformers usually saw themselves as making it possible for the Masai to survive as a race : getting obsessed with the Masai was not inherently a passive occupation . |
| 18 | ( e ) The House in Morris did not regard themselves as saying anything which conflicted with Lawrence . |
| 19 | Incidentally , I should before now have explained myself as regards my referring to ‘ Miss Kenton ’ . |
| 20 | A popular legend grew up that quoted him as saying he would run over his own grandmother for the president . |
| 21 | The story quoted him as saying there was medical evidence which showed that there had been abuse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dexter noticed her hand was shaking faintly and she struck him as keeping her self-control with great difficulty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Clutching Elaine 's hand , as much to comfort himself as to protect her , he retreated by stepping backwards as unobtrusively as he could . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll ‘ take care of me ’ because you see yourself as getting it all when I breathe me last , do n't you , eh ? |