Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
| 2 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 3 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 4 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 5 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 6 | ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day . |
| 7 | She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek , and jerked her hand away from her face . |
| 8 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 9 | It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect you signed in as a voluntary patient ; then they 're covered , Evans said . |
| 11 | She broke off as a blue lightning flash coincided with an ear-shattering thunder clap and released a fresh torrent of rain . |
| 12 | He was so dark that he must have to shave two or three times a day , she thought inconsequentially as a lingering trace of aftershave came to her nostrils . |
| 13 | Yeah I was gon na say , she went away as a little kid |
| 14 | Then she grew still as a sudden anxious thought occurred to her . |
| 15 | She appeared only as a moving wave of worker frenzy , a boiling peristaltic ball of ants with linked arms . |
| 16 | Even so , she shifted uncomfortably as a tiny rivulet of sweat ran between her shoulderblades . |
| 17 | The winning nomination , sent in be the school 's assistant headteacher , Mrs. Brenda Hart , was a tongue-in-cheek statement that everyone worked together as a friendly and cheerful team to uphold school standards in spite of Government directives and the pressures of society ! |
| 18 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 19 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 20 | QUAYLE Munro , the small Edinburgh merchant bank , is set to become a quoted company following what it described yesterday as a reverse takeover by East of Scotland Industrial Investments , the unquoted investment group managed by the bank , writes BILL MILLAR . |
| 21 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 22 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 23 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 24 | He broke off as a natural brunette called Kim came from behind one of the screens . |
| 25 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 26 | At least it started off as a quick explanation , but almost without noticing , she was soon telling Antony everything she had felt or feared in the past week . |
| 27 | Born in India , brought up mainly in France and speaking both French and German perfectly , he thought seriously as a young man of entering Habsburg service and married an American , while his brother took a Russian wife , one of the Nelidov family which was prominent in tsarist diplomacy . |
| 28 | He grimaced slightly as a traditional Korean band in multi-coloured silk costumes played a welcome fanfare on conch shells . |
| 29 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 30 | He ended up as a departmental head with two other jobs besides . |