Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and you will only have me as a stranger |
| 5 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 6 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
| 7 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 11 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 12 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I would like you to think of me as a friend . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't see me as a spokesperson for anything , ’ she warns . |
| 18 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |
| 19 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 20 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 21 | He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories . |
| 22 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 23 | You strike me as a basically good-natured and decent girl , and if I can be of assistance in putting you back on the right path , I shall be happy to oblige , so long as you do not expect too lengthy or too frequent an exchange . |
| 24 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think anybody will ever regard me as a BBC insider , ’ he insists . |
| 26 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 27 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 28 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 30 | Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher . |