Example sentences of "[noun pl] as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 50 years as a vets ' surgery The Grange has had to tend to many waif birds and animals brought for treatment . |
| 2 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 3 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 4 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
| 5 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 6 | The juvenile liaison policewomen , however , also carry out general community relations work , although the reverse is not the case , maintaining young offenders as a policewoman 's preserve . |
| 7 | Probably to be grouped with the royal priests as a king 's man is Ælfweard , allegedly a relative of Cnut , who became bishop of London in 1035 without relinquishing the abbacy of Evesham , contrary to church law . |
| 8 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 9 | The smell would catch its victims as a spider 's web ensnares a fly . |