Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] my [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He carried a bottle of water from the River Mississippi with which , he said , he planned to baptise my breast as a sign of love . |
| 2 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 3 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 4 | Brian , who had shared my experiences as a child in Abyssinia , had no desire to return there . |
| 5 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |