Example sentences of "[verb] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tunic fitted over a loose linen shirt and was belted snugly by the sash that Riven was coming to see as his own . |
| 2 | On leaving Leeds City , Chapman recommended as his deputy George Cripps , a schoolteacher and one of his assistants . |
| 3 | In their articles in this volume Ali Rattansi and Paul Gilroy have argued the case for new strategies in antiracist education that avoid what the Burnage Report criticized as its ‘ moral , symbolic and doctrinaire ’ forms . |
| 4 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 5 | Sadat is suddenly redefined as her only friend . |
| 6 | Interesting to compare as our players no better or worse than yours . |
| 7 | Since then , Back To Basics has n't looked back , refining its relaxed feel , attracting a slightly older crowd , and preserving the enthusiasm and innovation by turning away the wrong sort at the door ( ‘ It 's just letting in people you 'd want as your mate , ’ according to co-founder and one time punk Dave Beer ) . |
| 8 | What do you want as your little birthday present ? |
| 9 | ( 1983 ) have so clearly shown , many of those who perform such roles want support , and a measure of relief , but they do not wish to abdicate what they perceive as their responsibility . |
| 10 | Everyone 's house , and that 's another thing , if you wanted to paint as your house inside , the cupboards and the doors , they were painted brown and that was a lifetime 's job , they were never done again , not like you do now with this freshening up of paint every so often . |
| 11 | This undiscriminating enthusiasm … prevented him from settling on a ‘ field ’ to cultivate as his own . |
| 12 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 13 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 14 | It was engineered by a group of malcontent nobles in alliance with the faction of the Prince of the Asturias , using as their instruments army officers and the mob . |
| 15 | The Abortion Law Reform Association , founded in 1936 by seven women , of whom Dora Russell , Stella Browne and Frida Laski were particularly sympathetic to the labour movement , believed abortion to be safe , but called only for legal abortion to be made available on health grounds , using as their justification the way in which deaths due to abortion inflated the maternal mortality rate . |
| 16 | Feldstein and Flemming ( 1971 ) carried out a study of investment in all the major industrial sectors of the UK , using as their interest rate variable a weighted average of equity and debenture yields . |
| 17 | LITTLE of the sweaty-palmed tension and frantic chaos of the BBC television commentary box is relayed to the viewers , but Jack Bannister provides a revealing insight into the mechanics of the box , using as his vehicle last summer 's keenly contested Test series . |
| 18 | So just because you 've got those it does n't mean that 's what you are and that 's the way you 're always going to be it 'll change and it 'll change as time goes on it change as your role changes . |
| 19 | In the race this is the original social and psychological trauma which makes civilized society possible and which produces as its embodiment totemic religion . |
| 20 | Connon was angry when the doctor arrived , but even in anger he did n't lose the moderation of speech or manner which Antony now recognized as his main characteristic . |
| 21 | Like her blue overall for cooking , her little gold earrings , her grey tweed overcoat for winter , her beige mac that doubled as her coat in summer . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll take it , ’ she said firmly , taking out my credit cards , my pen , easing me towards the Mercury phone booth which doubled as his office . |
| 23 | Also , while I have the chance , could I point out that in spite of the FRCC guide crediting me with the first ascent of the bolt ladder route named Fiery Cross ( Dry Grasp ) on Upper Falcon Crag , it has nothing to do with me or B. Henderson , listed as my second . |
| 24 | The Council was not content with the system , and was working to improving the partnership — in a dialogue with partners that the Council needed to continue as its ‘ most urgent agendum ’ . |
| 25 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 26 | On the following evening Franca , Alison and Irina were together in what Jack laughingly called the women 's quarters , a room just beyond the kitchen which Franca had once designated as her sitting room or ‘ boudoir ’ , but which , before Alison 's arrival , she had not much frequented . |
| 27 | And as she rubbed against him , her skin became more and more slippery , until she squelched as her open crotch ground against his thighs . |
| 28 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 29 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 30 | First of all I 'm surprised at the outburst that was given to us by Mr I would regard as my er yahabeebee and sadiki if you wish er , but he mentioned in fact the er , what used to be barbaric ac , barbaric er practice in er Pakistan . |