Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 2 | Whatever figure you choose as a hero , you will hardly be able to keep out something of yourself . |
| 3 | A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile . |
| 4 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 5 | The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy . |
| 6 | Redmond , now with Oldham , is slowly recovering from the misery of his final few months at the club he joined as a boy . |
| 7 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 8 | The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy . |
| 9 | Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries . |
| 10 | Firstly , the plaintiff was compensated for the loss he suffered as a result of the injury , not for the injury itself . |
| 11 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 12 | Sarah that where that little desk she used as a dressing table , as I said , the desk in our will fit in there nicely , she says but I 'm leaving that till we |
| 13 | When your most familiar role models are those of a compliant woman or the ‘ strong , silent type ’ of man you may find it difficult to reconcile these influences with the aggressive determination you feel as a female , or the sensitivity and intuition you experience as a man . |
| 14 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 15 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 16 | He continued his education at the Shrewsbury Technical School until 1911 , while at home he emerged as a votary of John Keats [ q.v. ] and a model of Christian piety . |
| 17 | Thus today French media subscribers pay relatively little for a ‘ French-made ’ service of national and international news : the French press gets a major news-service cheap ( despite its protests to the contrary ) , and in exchange it serves as a guarantee of the independence of the agency . |
| 18 | Before the last cottage she paused as a woman appeared in the doorway . |
| 19 | A thematic key to the diaries was a haunting experience she had as a child in Cornwall . |
| 20 | The opportunity you have as a student to do a lot of work is good though . |
| 21 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 22 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |
| 24 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 25 | Please accept the small gift we enclose as a mark of our esteem . |
| 26 | THERE can be few musicals that so vividly evoke the era they portray as A Slice of Saturday Night , a 60s skit on teenage passions set in Eric ‘ Rubberlegs ’ De Vene 's Club A Go-Go . |
| 27 | When Italy entered the war he served as a lieutenant in the army , and , later , as a lieutenant-commander in the navy , working as a military communications consultant . |
| 28 | Instead he was denigrated , almost from the moment he emerged as a leader . |
| 29 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 30 | UNRWA remained permanently compromised with the refugee population it served as a result of these resettlement efforts . |