Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] his [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of hit shows , including The Reluctant Debutante , The Chiltern Hundreds and The Kingfisher , he drew on his background as the son of the 13th Earl of Home . |
| 2 | During his reign there were no murders , no wars , no robberies , and gold rings lay untouched in the open , so that everyone referred to his age as the Frótha-frith , the ‘ peace of Fróthi ’ . |
| 3 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 4 | Berger watched the race for a while and it was tempting to speculate on his thoughts as the cars of his former employer , Ferrari , screamed by in second and third places , Alesi keeping a respectful distance behind his team leader . |
| 5 | He could feel his heart thumping against his chest as the Bookman leapt gracefully through the air from shelf to shelf , across the library . |
| 6 | Fire danced in his eyes as the cool night air hit her naked breast . |
| 7 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 8 | For this purpose Archbishop Fisher acted in his capacity as the Queen , s commissioner . |
| 9 | Having played on his position as the injured party , Lewis has achieved a result that , even if he 's truly aggrieved , suits both he and Bowe . |
| 10 | Frost , regarded in his time as the ‘ finest comic artist in the U.S. ’ were given to the Club in 1972 by Mr. R.S. Green . |
| 11 | Today 's meeting , which the club 's bete noire , Geoffrey Boycott , is not expected to attend in his capacity as the member for Wakefield , is an inquest into last summer . |
| 12 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 13 | The idea was originated by Guinness and produced by a team of technical experts led by Anthony Daniels , an actor best known for his role as the golden robot C3PO in the Star Wars series of films . |
| 14 | He pulled into his drive as the church clock at St Juliot was striking eight ; a perfect summer evening with the waters of the estuary a mirror to the sky . |
| 15 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 16 | Julius growled under his breath as the traffic almost ground to a halt . |
| 17 | Touted at his peak as the best in the world , Schumacher , 38 , shocked the world with a cynical and dangerous professional foul to prevent French defender Patrick Battiston from scoring a semi-final goal that would have almost certainly put France in the 1982 final . |
| 18 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 19 | Tom Clarke has been removed from his position as the Shadow Scottish Secretary . |
| 20 | He did talk about his time as the Dauphin in a way that made people fairly sure that if the Stratford management had come to him with an offer , he would have grabbed it . |
| 21 | Its impact drove the strongly pro-English Angus into the Arran-Beaton camp ; his lands lay in the path of oncoming English armies , and the Scottish government could capitalize on this , by appealing to his position as the great man and protector of his locality , reinforcing such sentiments with a pension . |
| 22 | He leaped to his feet as the kitchen door suddenly opened , then crept backwards until he was concealed in the darker shadows beyond the turn of the banister . |
| 23 | He had been with UNACO for two years and , despite his maverick tendencies , he was widely regarded by his peers as the best field operative in the organization . |
| 24 | As the plaintiff was as much to blame for his injuries as the defendants , his damages were reduced by 50% . |