Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] my [noun] as [art] " 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 | If not , can I present my age as an advantage ? |
| 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 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 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 | I saw my marriage as a kind of pointless secular martyrdom , but I baulked at putting brushwood around my own pyre . |
| 9 | I use my father as an example because he was a Tory , and therefore as enthusiastic about students as beagles are about smoking . |
| 10 | ‘ I cocked my weapon as an immediate reaction . |
| 11 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 12 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 13 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 14 | And I ended up in the erm my ended my career as the in , I was in charge of the stone , stone masonry office working for the funeral manager . |
| 15 | When all this was going on I left my job as a bank clerk to work as a messenger . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | I see my task as a weaver who is looking for threads to weave together . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dorian , you changed my life as an artist from the moment when I met you . |
| 23 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Hugo , ’ said Cousin Vic , ‘ you have my word as an officer and a gentleman , that what ever you tell me will not go beyond the walls of this room . ’ |
| 25 | And so , Jesus Christ indwells your life as a Christian , and he indwells my life as a Christian by his spirit , by the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 27 | Insisted that he respect my confidence as a patient . |
| 28 | He told me how well he remembered my mother as a refugee in his home and how much his parents and grand father had liked her and thought of her as part of the family . |