Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [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 | And I make his desk as a desk . |
| 3 | If not , can I present my age as an advantage ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I am following my hon. Friend 's contribution closely and I appreciate his concern as a constituency Member . |
| 6 | I accept his statement as the word of a right hon. Member of this House . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 + + |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Joke ‘ I treated his words as a bit of a joke , ’ said Jolosa , of Cwmbran , Gwent . |
| 12 | I saw his words as a way of getting at the Countess . |
| 13 | I saw my marriage as a kind of pointless secular martyrdom , but I baulked at putting brushwood around my own pyre . |
| 14 | I use my father as an example because he was a Tory , and therefore as enthusiastic about students as beagles are about smoking . |
| 15 | Yeah the attitude is very much about I respect your rights as an individual , you 've got equal rights as much as I have . |
| 16 | ‘ I cocked my weapon as an immediate reaction . |
| 17 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 18 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 19 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 20 | I had your mother as a baby , and you know something ? |
| 21 | When all this was going on I left my job as a bank clerk to work as a messenger . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | I see my task as a weaver who is looking for threads to weave together . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 | Can you trust your skill as a handyman to see you through in an emergency ? |