Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adrienne Ring announced that she has taken over as Chairman of the Publicity Sub-Committee and she asked that all dates of rallies etc be sent to the office as soon as possible . |
| 2 | The three local women that she 'd brought in as help for the evening had been buzzing around behind her , greasing dishes and setting up trays and napkin-wrapping cutlery . |
| 3 | Use what you have learned only as background , or as a model ; concentrate on isolating suitable phrases or passages for comment , and on drawing general observations from them . |
| 4 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 5 | We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas . |
| 6 | They 'd started out as mods but gradually dritfed into fifties Americana and then the Alan Ladd suits . |
| 7 | They have done so as technology has altered the source of profits in the total system of supply . |
| 8 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |