Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have proper birth certificates , because my mother must have told a simple lie to the registrar , a discovery about the verisimilitude of documents that worries me a lot as a historian . |
| 2 | Vincentius had won himself a name as a reputable physician . |
| 3 | ‘ She found herself a job as a telephonist at the GPO , ’ Lily said . |
| 4 | David left school with 2 GCE ‘ O ’ level passes , in Art and Woodwork , and the school found him a job as a junior with a commercial art company , The Design Group Ltd. , and although some early press releases said that David was expelled from school , the record shows that he left two or three days early to start the job . |
| 5 | They found him a job as a Foreign Office translator . |
| 6 | He treats her like this because he wanted to marry Nettie , Celie 's sister , but her father said he would give him a cow as a dowry if he married her instead . |
| 7 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 8 | Late in 1822 he arrived back in London and Place secured him a position as a correspondent for the Morning Chronicle . |
| 9 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 10 | He said the Vincennes ' aggressive attitude had got it a reputation as a ‘ robocruiser ’ |
| 11 | doing dialect there 's still a things like the wireless and the weather things like that sometimes give it a personality as a . |
| 12 | ‘ I have not yet joined the Pioneers , ’ wrote Fritz on 15 November , ‘ but I have got myself a job as a radio reporter with the United Press of America . |
| 13 | Before she quite knew what hit her , Mandy had informed Charity that she had personally landed her a job as a cocktail waitress on the outdoor patio — the Susweca Lounge — at the lodge . |
| 14 | It has a university and technical colleges , and its large student population has helped to give it a reputation as a trouble-spot Muslim fundamentalist groups are very active in Asyut , and the Coptic population is large . |
| 15 | Fool ! she chastised herself , giving herself a shake as the buzzer on the microwave announced that the chicken was ready . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case , perhaps you 'd better just pay off your debt to me and find yourself a job as a salesgirl in some shop . |
| 17 | And the poor owd boy put his hat back on sheepish like and watched the fly zooming about the smithy , giving us a look as the same time . |
| 18 | The constable had responded to Joinville 's requests débonairement et … en bon manere , and had given him a knight as an escort who ‘ by his ordinance and advice expedited affairs débonairement' . |
| 19 | Mr Malik had given him a job as a janitor . |
| 20 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 21 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 22 | Butler had an easy manner but his searching cross-questioning gave him a reputation as a somewhat intimidating examiner or assessor for appointments , duties that made frequent calls on his time . |
| 23 | Maggie gave him a nudge as a rather flustered man pushed his way to the front of the people waiting and held up a placard — ‘ Señorita Howard ’ . |
| 24 | It gives her a role as a pseudo-ambassador to the region and she has been granted a special travel visa allowing access to the area without the normal restrictions on foreigners . |
| 25 | For in the same way in which the number or title of a painting in an exhibition catalogue gives it an identity as a material object different from all others of the same type , so the letters and numbers on a Cubist painting serve to individualize it , to isolate it from all other paintings . |
| 26 | Mum takes me to the doctor , our village doctor , who weighs me and mumbles about taking dieting too far and makes me an appointment as an outpatient at the hospital . |
| 27 | HEART-THROB movie star Kevin Costner could n't find himself a girlfriend as a teenager because he was too short and shy . |
| 28 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 29 | The very shabbiness of Hamley Hall in Wives and Daughters endears it to the reader ; its neglected beauty makes it a home as the grand and prosperous Towers is not . |