Example sentences of "as a ship 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 2 | After his marriage , William gave up his employment as a ship 's captain to manage his father-in-law 's estate and business affairs . |
| 3 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 4 | And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms . |
| 5 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 6 | I practise as a ship 's doctor . |
| 7 | As a ship 's food potatoes , with their high vitamin C content , were inadvertently responsible for an appreciable reduction in the incidence of that dreaded seaman 's disease scurvy . |
| 8 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |