Example sentences of "i [vb past] he as [art] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had .
4	MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies .
5	I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement .
6	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 .
7	‘ I loved him as a son does a father . ’
8	‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’
9	The following sentences taken from van Ek ( 1966 : 104-5 ) illustrate this use : ( 97 ) I knew him as a man to be very much like myself .
10	‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said .
11	‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence .
12	In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) .
13	Before I took him as a patient , I watched many of his fight films .
14	I liked him as a man and I thought er Mrs was a delightful lady .
15	There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment .
16	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 !
17	I recognized him as the man with only three fingers on his left hand — the one who had come to the Admiral Benbow !
18	I set him as a foreigner : untrustworthy , slyly clever , un-English .

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