Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 2 | Suddenly unease rose inside her and she faltered as a sudden thought struck her . |
| 3 | There is a distinction between an article created as a one-off work of art and something made as a practical , utilitarian object and perhaps destined for a production line . |
| 4 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 5 | George helped the Palace to gain promotion from Division Four in his first season at Selhurst Park , during which he made full appearances for us , and he continued as a first-team regular under Dick Graham , to become one of only two men to appear in both the 1961 and 1964 promotion sides . |
| 6 | The West End then beckoned , and he appeared as a solid juvenile in a sequence of light comedies . |
| 7 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 8 | He flew from Leuchars on a fast , unarmed courier flight , and he flew as a Swedish businessman called Lansen . |
| 9 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 10 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 11 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 12 | In particular , it proposed the ending of detention without trial as soon as was politically possible , and it condemned as a serious mistake the establishment of a ‘ special category ’ for convicted prisoners claiming political motivation . |
| 13 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 14 | No details are known of the conversion of Wulfhere but he reigned as a Christian king with a succession of bishops — Trumhere , Jaruman , Chad and Wynfrith — with their seat , at least from the time of Chad , at Lichfield ( HE 111 , 24 : IV , 3 ) . |