Example sentences of "[pron] acted [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit I acted with the thought that I could interest you , that some attention would not be unwelcome — I hope I am not so insensitive as to force my company on anyone without some indication on their part — and there was interest , was n't there ? |
| 2 | The air intake scoops , destined to become a typical Ferrari feature , appeared on the doors and rear wings , crossed by a chrome bar which acted as the door handle . |
| 3 | No one knows what society would be like if everyone acted on the advice of those who openly advocate it . |
| 4 | The greatest composer in the world , if he lacks an interpreter to suit him , is like a man prevented from speaking by a gag ; and this evening it was you who acted as the interpreter to untie the gag , the messenger to carry the good news . |
| 5 | Mr. Chapman , the master , and his wife , who acted as the matron , were together paid £50 a year , which included their rations . |
| 6 | Their task was to maximize output and hand over the requisite tribute to local officials who acted as the daimyo 's intermediaries . |
| 7 | These were not shire levies but professional soldiers who acted as the sheriff 's posse in the pursuit of criminals . |
| 8 | In the rural areas , every village had someone who acted as the Party boss and who , in collaboration with the Civil Guard , kept the local populace under observation . |
| 9 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing the guardian who acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 10 | Even when the incumbent on the throne showed little inclination for active policy-making , those who acted for the Tsar owed their power solely to proximity to the throne . |
| 11 | ‘ When the boy came to see me , he was very shaky , ’ said legal executive Mary Jolly , who acted for the boy . |
| 12 | He said that loss adjusters who acted for the council 's insurers after November 's fire , would be attending a meeting to discuss the claim as soon as the sketches are ready . |
| 13 | Trevor Hicks , whose two daughters were among those who died , and Peter Jackson , the Liverpool solicitor who acted for the Football Supporters ' Association at the Hillsborough Inquiry , both condemn the FA for acting in haste . |
| 14 | Prior to her retirement she acted as the Society 's Liaison Officer for the Sports Council for the last 20 years . |
| 15 | Truly , I thought , our lives were more exciting than any of the crackpot dramas we acted on the stage … . |
| 16 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 17 | The members of the People 's Will convinced themselves that in hounding the Tsar they acted in the name of the people , but their ‘ subconscious ideal ’ , never fully achieved , ‘ was of a militant authoritarian party imposing its will on the masses . ’ |
| 18 | As a public corporation ( 'epic ’ ) , it acted for the state in contracting work out to arms and electronics manufacturers . |
| 19 | It acted at the request of Axa Midi , which has reaffirmed its agreement to buy BAT 's subsidiary , Farmers , should Hoylake win . |
| 20 | However , the government on Oct. 28 withdrew the National Bank of Pakistan from public sale , on the grounds that it acted as the treasury arm of the State Bank of Pakistan in places where the State Bank had no office . |
| 21 | In truth , however , the inspector would not have been induced to exempt the accused from liability because he acted on the assumption that none existed . |
| 22 | There is no question that he acted with the dynamism of ‘ a man possessed ’ . |
| 23 | Between 1281 and 1285 he acted as the attorney of a number of different litigants in the Common Bench and the Exchequer , perhaps while studying law as an apprentice of the king 's court . |
| 24 | And it was er no it was a lady on Sanday , her dad had been the joiner there and she said that erm he acted as the funeral arranger as well . |
| 25 | He acted as the substitute and the representative for the whole human race . |
| 26 | He acted as the scribe of the gods , a messenger and mediator as a divinity of wisdom and was a moon god . |
| 27 | He acted like the gangster in a B movie rubbing out someone who had got in his way … |
| 28 | When Curteys hit at Lewkenor 's and his associates ' involvement in corn speculation he acted in the tradition to which we shall return , of the magnate 's dispensing reasonable justice , but it was a politically fatal manoeuvre . |
| 29 | Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences . |