Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] his [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Note the lively sculpture of the roof line , one figure looking as if he is smoking a hubble-bubble or earning his living as a snake charmer : in fact he is a fireman ! |
2 | Also , in the same passage , he says he is going to pack his bag — ‘ my pauper 's bag ’ — and end up either dead of starvation in a ditch or earning his keep as a tutor in some merchant 's house . |
3 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
4 | In 1906 , having worked as a foreman on Merseyside , he became general organizer of the National Union of Dock Labourers under ( Sir ) James Sexton [ q.v. ] , and made his mark as a strike leader and socialist propagandist in Belfast during 1907 . |
5 | Hislop trained with Bratt and made his début as a principal singer at the Royal Swedish Opera , Stockholm , as Faust in C. F. Gounod 's opera on 12 September 1914 . |
6 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
7 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
8 | One of them , Gerard Cochran , boasted that he personally ‘ would kill Joseph and scalp him and wear his scalp as a bridle ’ . |
9 | At the conclusion of the Sudan wars , shortly before , the victorious British general , Kitchener , had smashed the tomb of the defeated enemy and claimed his skull as a souvenir . |
10 | Athelstan groaned and hid his face as a crowd of parishioners led by Black Clem , Ranulf the rat-catcher and Pike the ditcher , passed the tavern door , roaring a filthy song at the top of their voices . |
11 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
12 | Licensed to preach whilst in Edinburgh , he was ordained by 1727 , and began his ministry as an assistant to his father , at the time minister of the Presbyterian meeting-house at Leather Lane , Hatton Garden , London . |
13 | Di Gesu , a native of Sicily , arrived in Brooklyn , New York , at the age of seven and began his career as a 14-year-old assistant to a theatrical photographer . |
14 | His inquiries and interpretations will inevitably draw polluting and contaminating ideas to the surface , for they are a result of his place as an ‘ institutional shaman ’ and mirror his position as a liminal mover in the organization . |
15 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
16 | Instead , whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant , and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served , but to serve , and to give his life as a ransom for many ’ ' ( Matthew 20:25–28 ) . |
17 | It seems a justifiable inference , too , that , even more than had been the case in 1939 , a sizeable proportion of the population would not have been saddened by Hitler 's assassination , and viewed his survival as a hindrance to the ending of the war . |
18 | His father-in-law accused him of breaking his marriage vows and questioned his integrity as a Privy Councillor . |
19 | This practical middle aged surveyor with a wife and new baby left the relative security of surveying , at which he had already achieved some distinction ; turned his back on London and its opportunities , and took his chances as an artist in Ambleside . |
20 | While machines could do the work of muscle , ‘ the labourer is needed to guide the machines , and to take his place as an intelligent factor in the complex system of modern industry ’ . |
21 | An observer noted that ‘ the day is happily gone by , the dark age has passed over , when the village farrier had a clyster-pipe and bladder in one pocket , and a roll of tow emerging from another , and brandishing his twitch as a weapon of offence and defence , is the only person to whom our domestic animals are entrusted ’ . |
22 | In 1939 he bought Cressy and abandoned his career as a practising engineer in favour of a life spent writing on board a canal narrow boat . |
23 | From January 1983 he became an active member of the library committee but described his role as an " executive " or " coordinator " of what the committee decided as policy . |
24 | Sgt. Robertson in V7116 claimed a damaged , but identified his victim as a Do17 , while Plt.Off . |
25 | He first appears speaking prose ( As You Like It , I.ii.149 ) , but when Orlando not only defeats his wrestler but reveals his identity as the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys , the Duke moves up to verse to give his displeasure more force ( 224ff . ) . |
26 | His death in 1930 halted the immediate ascendancy of his version of socialism , but facilitated his canonisation as the prophet of a distinctly Latin American Marxism . |
27 | Should I not , when confronting such decisions , carry on as before but take his advice as a factor counting in favour of the decision he recommends ? |