Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 How do you expect me to conceive myself as no longer existent ? ’
2 so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're
3 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 .
4 ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years .
5 Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness .
6 I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had .
7 Personally , I regarded it as a good thing .
8 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 .
9 I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon .
10 As one who knew her and her husband only a little , I remember her as a vivacious lady of beauty and charm who worked throughout her life for many good causes .
11 Sarah : I define myself as a socialist lesbian feminist , but of course that in some sense begs more questions than it answers .
12 I fancied myself as an incipient existentialist .
13 I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers .
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said .
17 I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted .
18 ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence .
19 In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) .
20 I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business .
21 I use it as a listening device — a rabbit and ferret locator .
22 But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’
23 Foolishly , I took it as a good sign .
24 Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak .
25 Sometimes I think it as a transcendent sound which speaks of unknown powers , of cosmic storms and sun winds sighing in the brain .
26 When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished .
27 There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment .
28 In view of the fact that , like you , I regard him as a fluent liar and consummate actor , I think not .
29 Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them .
30 ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’
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