Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
3 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
4 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
5 | He regarded it as a testable conjecture . |
6 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
7 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
8 | He described himself as a passionate Liberal , not a radical one . |
9 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
10 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
11 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
12 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
13 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
14 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
15 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
16 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
17 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
18 | AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday . |
19 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
20 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
21 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
22 | He fancied himself as a new Alexander and said he wanted to learn more about the Renaissance in the neighbouring country , so he invaded Italy . |
23 | He remembers him as a melancholy figure . |
24 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
25 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
26 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
27 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
28 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
29 | He took it as a personal insult . |
30 | He took it as a personal reproach . |