Example sentences of "[pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many months a nurse had been taking care of Mary , described by everyone as a gentle , retiring person . |
| 2 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 4 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 5 | treat everyone as a temporary language helper . |
| 6 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 7 | A tongue that left people in no doubt of their responsibilities but delivered in impeccable style , seen by everyone as a proper ‘ gent ’ . |
| 8 | It is known to everyone as the 'Spruce Goose ’ , but what was its official name ? |
| 9 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 10 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 11 | There are also differences in the schools that the children attend , in who recognizes whom as a neighbour , and in the use of village shops and other facilities . |
| 12 | But , supposing we look at the same material from the standpoint of , say the authors of the Upanishads , with whom as a matter of fact I happen to agree . |
| 13 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 14 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 15 | and you will only have me as a stranger |
| 16 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 17 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
| 18 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 19 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 20 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 21 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 22 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 23 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 26 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 27 | I would like you to think of me as a friend . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't see me as a spokesperson for anything , ’ she warns . |
| 29 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |
| 30 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |