Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 3 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 4 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 5 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 6 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 9 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 12 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 14 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 15 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 16 | Before I took him as a patient , I watched many of his fight films . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 20 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |