Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the first period he took as a starting point his previously arrived figure of forty seven thousand five hundred pounds and as an end point a figure of fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds ninety six pence , derived from Mrs . |
| 32 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 33 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 34 | In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative . |
| 35 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 36 | Its whole future rests on the decision we take as a nation when we vote in the General Election on Thursday , ’ he said . |
| 37 | The best route to any reconciliation is to pack the kiddies off to Grandma and try to recapture some of the fun you had as a couple before the pressures of parenthood took over . |
| 38 | In the opening pages she interpolates a radio play called ‘ A Round of Silence ’ by Perry Hupsos ( a character she invented as a radio presenter in Amalgamemnon ( 74 ) out of the title Peri Hypsos ( Longinus 's On the Sublime ) ) . |
| 39 | On January 12th they were heading towards Eleuthera — the two friends , a dragoman , and an armed policeman they employed as a guard — when the weather worsened . |
| 40 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 41 | In the 1986 film Round Midnight he starred as a jazz musician who , like Gordon himself in the Sixties , sought refuge in Europe . |
| 42 | She calls it ‘ Hooliz ’ , after a game she played as a child . |
| 43 | Because of the after-effects of meningitis she had as a baby , I usually accompany her whenever she sees a doctor . |
| 44 | Out erm well , mum , in the morning she works as a postwoman and then the rest of the day she works as a , in the pub so |
| 45 | Last week we met as a team , working with and next week we will be meeting . |
| 46 | Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker . |
| 47 | Stalinist And once again the mad axemen from Wapping and elsewhere will be sharpening their stilettos ( knives not heels ) in the hope of finally despatching the manager they see as a soccer Satanist . |
| 48 | As with the verbs of perception , then , to is used here to evoke an abstract before/after relation of condition to consequence , and the movement it signifies as a potential in tongue is actualized with a final interception . |
| 49 | For Swift , of course , the disillusionment will come when the man discovers that the woman he worshipped as a goddess is only too physical , as in ‘ The Lady 's Dressing Room ’ : |
| 50 | The valley , which opened in 1984 , is of national importance because of the role it played as a supplier of copper products in the 18th century . |
| 51 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 52 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 53 | The family are claiming they should be compensated for the income they lost as a result of Tony 's death . |
| 54 | The family are claiming they should be compensated for the income they lost as a result of Tony 's death . |
| 55 | This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’ |
| 56 | That was the word they used as a condition : So long as you stay balanced , darling . ’ |
| 57 | As a young man he served as a clerk to Robert Corbett , of Stanwardine , custos rotulorum of Shropshire and MP in 1654–5 . |
| 58 | He could go to Ireland and join up with the Republican Army , and carry on the fight his father … no , not his father , but the man he loved as a father … had started . |
| 59 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 60 | In later life it served as a stable , the 16th century structure being initially restored in 1937 and subsequently converted . |