Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 2 | ( Although these are now retitled Principal Librarians , Children and Schools , we shall refer to them throughout as DCSLs . ) |
| 3 | Firstly , let us refer to them simply as ‘ shorts ’ . |
| 4 | At a later stage one might , for some reason , want to prevent the other side using reports disclosed to them voluntarily as part of their case , and if they have been put in the wrong part of the list of documents the right to do so will have been lost . |
| 5 | Many people would refer to them more as superhuman than as divine characters . |
| 6 | But , secondly , it seems to me plain as a pikestaff that the building society , in parting with its money , relied on the transfer . |
| 7 | I mean erm , Anglia talked er , talked to me anyway as Chairman of B Sky B erm , before they , before they did the write off and it 's , it 's just tax driven . |
| 8 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 9 | It looks to me more as if he wanted them to push off and abandon him . |
| 10 | With × 7 , the cluster appears to me only as an extremely dim blur adjoining Phi . |
| 11 | Their words came to me only as a series of hoarse gasping noises . |
| 12 | I shall require you to salute me , to speak to me only as vous , and , when you must address me , I should prefer to be called mon colonel . ’ |
| 13 | The novelist referred to himself once as ‘ amorphous Roth ’ . |
| 14 | Fr from that time can you recall any incidents which er your father may have mentioned to you even as a young boy ? |
| 15 | I speak to you now as your indispensable medium . |
| 16 | His hands jerked her to him again as a group of jugglers pushed past , their clubs digging into her back so that she was forced to catch Lucenzo 's shoulders and lean hard against him , totally at his mercy . |
| 17 | When George Fox [ q.v. ] met Bauthumley at Swannington in January 1655 , he referred to him unfavourably as a Ranter , although The Light and Dark Sides of God circulated among Quakers . |
| 18 | DeVore watched Berdichev move among the men gathered there in the garden room , more at ease now than he had ever been ; saw too how they looked to him now as a leader , a shaper of events , and noted with irony how different that was from how they had formerly behaved . |
| 19 | Pickwick came back to him dimly as a Dickensian character . |
| 20 | Other women , who now spoke to her freely as a married woman among married women , certainly thought not . |
| 21 | He gave her a slanting , quite roguish smile , cleverly designed to appeal to her both as a woman and a mother . |
| 22 | He had thought that he must come back to her now as a stranger , learning afresh the shape of her wide forehead and tapering face , and the way she had of opening her eyes wide to take in entire the person to whom she spoke . |
| 23 | Heroism presented itself to her still as sacrifice ; but she turned her mind in pity to the heroines who had suffered atrocious torments to keep their bud for the eternal bridegroom ; surely , and the paradox hit her humour with satisfying logic , the most excellent act of selflessness for a virgin was to surrender up her state ? |
| 24 | It was two in the morning and she walked the short distance to her home as if on a cushion of air . |
| 25 | But the magazine — against the interviewer 's wishes — has deleted the surname of the woman , referring to her only as Jennifer . |
| 26 | For example , to send data to the communications port ( serial port without the printer filter ) , you can open a file to : COM.0 and PRINT to it just as if you were PRINTing to a file . |
| 27 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 28 | The Nez Perce , in common with most North American Indian tribes , referred to themselves simply as ‘ The People ’ — Nimipu . |
| 29 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 30 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |