Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 2 | ‘ A FEW hours ago I discharged my last duty as the heir to the throne and now that I will be succeeded by my son , Prince William , my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him . |
| 3 | Advice from England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has helped me survive my first crisis as a manager . |
| 4 | I 've enjoyed my first year as a pro despite everything . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've enjoyed my first year as a pro despite everything , ’ he says . |
| 6 | After all , why should n't I enjoy my last months as a bachelor ? |
| 7 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 8 | 1961 : The Beatles make their first recording as The Beat Brothers , for Polydor in Germany . |
| 9 | Miss Kay Evans , Chairing her last meeting as the Society 's President welcomed the four new committee members , Toni Bergman , Adrienne Ring , Cecilia Taylor and Jan Weisner and thanked the retiring members , Bridget Ewing and Berta Group . |
| 10 | He had made his first apport as a teenager . |
| 11 | As a graduate in psychology from Durham University and a man who played his first game as a senior for Consett , the North-East could claim some part in his making . |
| 12 | Thanks to you , loyal readers , Country Living is now celebrating its fifth year as a monthly publication , with a circulation of 175,000 . |
| 13 | Bob recalls his first days as a charge nurse in the 1950s in a long-stay ward for elderly people . |
| 14 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority banned a radio advert of the Friends of John McCarthy to mark his fourth Christmas as a hostage because it broke political rules . |
| 15 | He did n't reckon to waste his last evening as an independent . |
| 16 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 17 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 18 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 19 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 20 | The harassment occurred just four months after the sixteen-year-old , from Lurgantarry , started her first job as a YTP trainee at workshop in Co Armagh , the hearing heard . |
| 21 | ART SHELL , the first black head coach in the modern NFL , recorded his first victory as the Los Angeles Raiders beat the New York Jets 14-7 . |
| 22 | The conference was the first to be held by the union since the 1981 convention which had followed its first registration as a legal union [ see p. 31213 ] . |
| 23 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 24 | The German-Jewish family moved back to London in 1931 , where the 18-year-old Goodman took his first job as an apprentice to the leading commercial photographer of the day , Shaw Wildman . |
| 25 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 26 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |
| 27 | By the time the next issue of FlyPast hits the magazine shelves the Vulcan will be making its last appearances as a flying exhibit . |
| 28 | The BGS Thin Sectioning Service completed its first year as a self-funding internal service . |
| 29 | Nigel Clough , meanwhile , will play his first game as a Liverpool player today for England . |
| 30 | She married fellow student Bob Norrie when her articles were over and moved with him down to Reading to take her first job as a solicitor with Dennis Berry & Co . |