Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
| 2 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 3 | ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse . |
| 5 | I put them down as a 'No' , eight per cent could n't bring themselves to support this strategy , they are 'Nos ' . |
| 6 | From the first moment I saw Inverness Doogie and his Welsh wife , Miranda , I had them down as a sort of suicidal Sonny and Cher . |
| 7 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 8 | It was decided that he would take me in as an apprentice to old Bill ( Mr Carswell ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He wheeled me in as the star turn , ’ said Lydia indignantly when she got back . |
| 11 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 12 | If they are smaller , staple them together as a pad for rough calculations . |
| 13 | They are given a time , but they never do , if you er , there 's no way you 're gon na get them together as a group for that time |
| 14 | They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees . |
| 15 | The graphemes themselves are individual letters or small groups of letters such as " b " , " ou " , and " ght " , and when we can identify these graphemes and then pronounce them together as the sound represented by /bo:t/ ( which rhymes with " port " ) , we can be said to have used the GPC rules . |
| 16 | Their words came to me only as a series of hoarse gasping noises . |
| 17 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 18 | Put me down as a nutter , do . |
| 19 | IF I tell you that this is the perfect time to go out and buy a record deck , you will no doubt put me down as the sort of person who invested heavily in Betamax video , eight-track tape and the Sinclair C5 : a sucker for doomed formats . |
| 20 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 21 | They are , however , making use of a tool to help them just as a botanist might use a magnifying glass . |
| 22 | People surged forward , nearly knocking them over as a train came in . |
| 23 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 24 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 25 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 26 | To the great irritation of John Smith 's supporters , Gould has presented himself skilfully as the ideas candidate . |
| 27 | By way of contrast , the British shop steward reacts to , and is more prepared to challenge , management decisions , regarding himself less as an agent of regulation than as a tactician in pursuit of tangible , if elusive improvements for the rank and file' ( ibid. , p. 185 ) . |
| 28 | So , when Councillor Peter Bradley replied to a letter from a resident he was careful to describe himself only as a member of ‘ the minority party ’ . |
| 29 | There is a story of Dorothy L. Sayers that depends on the reader noting that a French speaker uses in one careless word the wrong gender and thus , supposedly , gives himself away as a man masquerading as a woman . |
| 30 | For although his authority was supreme , he preferred to regard himself not as a dictator but as a partner , acting together with directors , players and everyone else in the club in a common purpose . |