Example sentences of "[v-ing] as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 2 | This is very much what this forum and the Plan of Action series is about : to look at some of the problems we are facing as a women 's movement and to evaluate our practice . |
| 3 | Lily 's hand fluttered negatively in her own and a harrowed smile , fleeting as a wind 's breath , stirred her lips and then they stretched back again into a tense , bloodless rictus . |
| 4 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 5 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 6 | This list is not intended to be exhaustive , and certainly does not include areas where your nursing qualification is used indirectly , such as working as a children 's nanny or as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical or product manufacturer . |
| 7 | The boys , of course , were still living at home , Arthur working as a plumber 's apprentice and Ted and Sam still at school . |
| 8 | That — arrogant brute had implied that her mother had taken his family for a ride financially , yet , according to Ruth Russell , Isabelle had been pregnant and penniless , reduced to working as a mother 's help when Hugh met her . |