Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John became a justice of the Common Bench in Easter term 1275 and the formal records of the court show him acting as a justice continuously down to the end of 1289 . |
| 2 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 3 | He asked me what rights he had as a father . |
| 4 | Not all the other dancers were in sympathy with the intellectual attitudes of John and his friends , either , but he needed all the intellectual stimulation he could get because , although his work as a dancer was meant to help him develop as a choreographer , the repertory was far from ideal for that purpose . |
| 5 | I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them . |
| 6 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 7 | If so , it was good to give him experience as a bishop as soon as possible . |
| 8 | When he was bought ( all those years ago ) I assume he came as a Strach replacement ( what with Strach 's back giving gip ) , but with Batts gone too , what sort of role is he playing ? |
| 9 | Eventually we find him established as a hermit at Finchale , having abandoned the pursuit of earthly treasure . |
| 10 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 11 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 12 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |
| 13 | The pull of journalism was incessant , but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor . |
| 14 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 15 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 16 | The occasion was made even more splendid by the presence of King Alfonso II of Aragon and Count Raymond V of Toulouse , who had asked him to act as an arbitrator in their long-standing quarrel . |
| 17 | The first tack he regards as a way for CSRG/BSDI to limit competition . |
| 18 | as if that were not enough , the Department of Trade and Industry is still trying to have him disqualified as a company director for his role in the collapse of Homes Assured — a move which forced his resignation from the chairmanship of Lonrho in 1991 . |
| 19 | think he had as a bouncer or something . |
| 20 | Mackworth died in December 1654 at the mews house he held as a councillor . |
| 21 | What did he feel as a man ? |
| 22 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 23 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |