Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 2 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 3 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 4 | I approached it as a pilgrim , though today of course it looks like any other golf club ; the members are indigenous and they are Japanese . |
| 5 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 6 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 7 | I described it as a recipe for throwing Northern Ireland into convulsion . |
| 8 | I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement . |
| 9 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 10 | I regarded it as a nuisance , regarded it as something totally unnecessary . |
| 11 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 12 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 13 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 14 | I recognised it as an apple tree , but no one else did . |
| 15 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 16 | I found something a shade patronizing in her attitude , and I interpreted it as an attempt to upstage me ; perhaps to test me , to see if I was worth playing against . |
| 17 | ‘ I loved him as a son does a father . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 19 | I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers . |
| 20 | ‘ I meant it as a compliment . ’ |
| 21 | You could say I meant it as a gesture . |
| 22 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 23 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 24 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 25 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 26 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 27 | The following sentences taken from van Ek ( 1966 : 104-5 ) illustrate this use : ( 97 ) I knew him as a man to be very much like myself . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 30 | Fourth , I saw her as an example of God 's grace . |