Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even he did n't consider such deeds heroic ( heroes are usually frightened men who rise to the occasion ) , but saw himself as just a reckless fool whose luck would one day run out . |
| 2 | The two modes fight it out in Schlesinger 's Billy Liar , where the hero escapes from the constraints of life in an undertaking business by fantasizing himself as variously a soldier , Winston Churchill , a gunman mowing down his family or an aristocrat living with obliging parents whose behaviour is strikingly different from that of the real screeching proletarians . |
| 3 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 4 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 5 | Its view of itself as strictly an object database engine provider has changed to encompass solutions , migration and gateways . |
| 6 | Yeah , we 've actually er , way we 've designed is that erm , it 's actually a sort of , it 's inserted in the ham handbook itself as actually a , sort of separate removal section so they can |
| 7 | It has sublime importance , however , because it is the scene of the hunt , itself as much a prestigious and sacred activity as a means of acquiring meat . |
| 8 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 9 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 10 | He had thought of her as essentially a private woman who would be very little concerned with her neighbours or their problems . |
| 11 | He gave him as sharp a look as he dared . |
| 12 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |
| 13 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |
| 14 | You may not consider yourself as either a salesperson or a negotiator but you are a persuader nonetheless . |
| 15 | I asked her whether she felt she could walk past them , giving them as wide a berth as the width of the pavement would allow . |
| 16 | There are also some that are actually innocuous but are seldom eaten for they have taken a rather complicated gamble by copying the colours of poisonous caterpillars to delude aggressors into giving them as wide a berth as the creatures they mimic . |