Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [noun] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 2 | And I make his desk as a desk . |
| 3 | However I run my boat as a charter boat and cater for a masochistic fringe who would sail on Christmas day if I were to let them . |
| 4 | I am following my hon. Friend 's contribution closely and I appreciate his concern as a constituency Member . |
| 5 | I know my objectivity as a reviewer is going to be put sorely to the test , because so far I 've loved every one that I 've laid my hands on . |
| 6 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 7 | Fifty years ago , Debussy fans could only buy records of this or that piano piece from the Préludes , Estampes , Children 's Corner and so on , and I remember my pleasure as a child in acquiring HMV 's 12-inch shellac disc of Rubinstein playing the Prélude from Pour le piano ( labelled as ‘ Prelude in A minor ’ ) coupled with Ravel 's ‘ Forlane ’ from Le tombeau de Couperin . |
| 8 | When , gentle reader , someone over-uses your name as a controlling tactic , a throwaway comment disguising an analysis of what is going on can be most effective : ‘ Gosh , it 's interesting how you call me by my Christian name so much ’ ( sub-text : ‘ I 've rumbled you — stop it ’ ) . |
| 9 | Joke ‘ I treated his words as a bit of a joke , ’ said Jolosa , of Cwmbran , Gwent . |
| 10 | I saw his words as a way of getting at the Countess . |
| 11 | I saw my marriage as a kind of pointless secular martyrdom , but I baulked at putting brushwood around my own pyre . |
| 12 | I had your mother as a baby , and you know something ? |
| 13 | When all this was going on I left my job as a bank clerk to work as a messenger . |
| 14 | Sir , — Nine years ago I volunteered my services as a school governor , believing that the expertise I could offer would be helpful to headteacher , staff and pupils . |
| 15 | Furthermore if I see my task as a teacher in terms of the development of thinking skills , should I not concentrate upon those procedures which are appropriate to particular academic disciplines ? |
| 16 | I see my task as a weaver who is looking for threads to weave together . |
| 17 | I see my job as a county councillor as one of running the county council so that it delivers services to the people cost effectively and efficiently . |
| 18 | In all the senses I felt that there was little support in helping me integrate my identity as a Black lesbian and ended up feeling totally alienated and with a complete loss of my self-confidence . |
| 19 | It was rare to have six Black gays working politically and personally together in the same workplace and that helped me integrate my identity as a Black lesbian . |
| 20 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 21 | They were followed by Gruber 's recent Photofit Pictures , a kind of musical detective story which demonstrated his skill as a fabricator of agreeably simple musical structures , and his penchant for pastiche . |
| 22 | The store manager appeared to possess a certain charisma which enhanced his position as a manager of others . |
| 23 | He directed the same charge against Schleiermacher as well , and in this paved the way for Ritschl and Liberal Theology ( Ritschl himself began his career as a New Testament scholar in the Tübingen tradition ) . |
| 24 | The Murphy 's Cup , the Stableford event which saw its debut as a European Tour special event at St. Pierre this season , has been awarded full status on the Tour will be played at Fulford in August , 1990 . |
| 25 | There are at least three kinds of validity : construct validity which refers to the degree to which the test seems to be based on psychological theory , content validity which describes how well the test measures what it is intended to measure and criterion validity which indicates its value as a predictor using as criteria other measures of relevant performance . |
| 26 | In turn the military 's ability to define issues , which serve their interests as a threat leads to a heavy reliance on security blankets being imposed on the dissemination of information . |
| 27 | ‘ Only a man who offers his word as a guarantee could be so naïve . |
| 28 | The Darling Buds Of May beauty looked tastier than ever when she made her debut as a waitress . |
| 29 | Her new diet , The Bank Balance Diet , introduced in her biography , A Weight Off My Mind ( Macdonald , £14.95 ) , asks you to treat your body as a bank , ‘ earning credit ’ through exercise and ‘ writing cheques ’ with the food you eat . |
| 30 | Jo accepts that despite Craig 's well-publicised engagement to his former co-star Rachel Friend , his fans will scrutinise every leading lady who crosses his path as a possible new love interest . |