Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cabinet Ministers were ‘ corralled ’ to give an immediate judgement between Harold Macmillan and me as successor . |
| 2 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 3 | I do n't find that difficult , that 's really expected of me as part of the caring . |
| 4 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 5 | Finally they seemed to accept me as part of the landscape and came within the range of my camera . |
| 6 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 7 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 8 | The room struck me as chill . |
| 9 | The evening of talented entertainment was hilarious and also included shafts of criticism expressed in humour that struck me as evidence of CA 's basic good health . |
| 10 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 11 | There , I would be just as much a stranger , but they would have to define themselves against me as natives against incomers , or in terms of social classification . |
| 12 | My friends call me Benny , but you can address me as Professor Summerfield . |
| 13 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 14 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 15 | Most of the older people in the parish remember me as Florrie Scoble . ’ |
| 16 | Being ‘ in on it ’ , so to speak , had dissolved fear ; and death , for the first time , seemed as natural to me as birth . |
| 17 | And then we talked of more interesting things , things by now as familiar to me as legend , in a sort of litany , each speaking in turn . |
| 18 | The important issue for me as chairman throughout that period was to remember that once the Prime Minister had said that Westland was a private-sector problem which must be solved by private-sector measures and techniques , one 's interests were obviously the shareholders , the employees , the customers and the banks , since the company was heavily indebted . |
| 19 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 20 | Your asking me as chairman of the board and I think I can speak to the board I think that the theatre has actually managed very well . |
| 21 | Any parent is very welcome to contact me as Chairman of the East Sussex Dyslexia Association on Eastbourne three four seven six two . |
| 22 | But with me as Connie Fraser . |
| 23 | The Headman too was bright and intelligent , and they had a cheery conversation with me as interpreter . |
| 24 | But my friends all know me as Buck . ’ |
| 25 | And before the end of the first term everyone knew me as crocodile . |
| 26 | A few months later the Oxfordshire Education Committee responded to 10/65 by appointing me as co-ordinator for the Banbury reorganization , and commissioned me to submit plans : the noisy sewage pump had done its work . |
| 27 | Accordingly , the parties agree that each of them will accept my decision on the matters referred to me hereunder as conclusive and binding and that neither will bring any action or proceeding or make any claim against me as expert relating to or arising from the performance of my duties hereunder . |
| 28 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 29 | I mean he knew me as Brenda , my first name . |
| 30 | This has , in point of fact , always struck me as behaviour verging on the pathological . |