Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 2 | So I quickly dressed as a young man and followed you home to Baker Street . |
| 3 | I never believed as a Tory MP to be in a situation where I would condemn the actions of a Tory Government in a matter of this kind . ’ |
| 4 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 5 | Not the work , which was back-breaking and tedious — he specialized in bolting on bumpers and screwing down steering wheels on trucks — but the mostly Asian workforce whose respect and confidence he soon won as a shop-floor activist . |
| 6 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 7 | This emerges clearly in its tortuous attempt to grapple with what it still regarded as a fundamental difference between ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ West Indian ’ patterns of educational performance . |
| 8 | If other cities are a guide to Milan then it also served as a useful quarry for the inhabitants . |
| 9 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 10 | It also acted as a central store and clearing house for hops , organising the supply to the brewers . |
| 11 | In 1989 it was revealed that he had engaged in a homosexual relationship with Steven Gobie , whom he also hired as a personal aide and driver in 1985 . |
| 12 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 13 | This back-crossed son of Old Bec was fertile , fathering a number of colts and fillies , and he also served as a popular saddle horse . |
| 14 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 15 | Dr. Eric Ashby , vice-chancellor of Queens University , Belfast , was named as chairman ; one of his advantages was that he had avoided publicising his personal views on adult education in the past , although he later emerged as a staunch defender of voluntaryism and a critic of those university extra-mural departments which had expanded by lowering standards . |
| 16 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 17 | It then ran as a two car unit ( No . |
| 18 | It sometimes came as a slight shock to Wycliffe to have this paragon of the modern virtues working under his direction . |