Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 2 | ( With an inattentive , hyperactive child you might hold him in front of you and ask him to repeat your request as a check that he has ‘ taken it in ’ . ) |
| 3 | FROM HIS EARLY BOOKS SUCH AS ‘ THE PORNOGRAPHER ’ AND ‘ THE DARK ’ McGAHERN HAS DEALT BRUTALLY AND HONESTLY WITH SEXUAL REPRESSION AND FAMILY POLITICS IN IRELAND , A STAND THAT SAW HIM LOSE HIS JOB AS A TEACHER . |
| 4 | His poems so impressed Thomas Gee , the owner and editor of the influential weekly Baner ac Amserau Cymru ( Banner and Times of Wales ) that he invited him to join his staff as a trainee journalist . |
| 5 | Allen already holds a 24.9% stake in the company , and said he might seek representation on the board and also might buy additional shares , adding that America Online 's adoption of a shareholder rights plan to fend off hostile takeovers , has caused him to reconsider his position as a passive investor in the firm . |
| 6 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 7 | He made his reputation as a speaker almost at once . |
| 8 | Alan actually began with Palace as an amateur , after travelling across London upon hearing that trials were being held at Selhurst Park , and he made his debut as a 17-year-old in March 1962 . |
| 9 | If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era . |
| 10 | He became the most high-profile newscaster in Britain when he made his debut as the programme 's anchorman . |
| 11 | Back in Ireland , he made his name as a Munster and UCC wing or centre in the late Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 12 | There he made his name as a cricketer , and in particular , as a fast bowler . |
| 13 | Popular in Reykjavik , where he made his name as a dynamic and uncompromising mayor , he narrowly defeated the more mild-mannered Thorsteinn Pálsson , the party chair since 1983 and Prime Minister in 1987-88 . |
| 14 | He made his living as a lithographer and by painting pictures of ships for naval officers , and had an arrangement with Griffin 's Bookshop in Portsmouth to take orders for his work , and the firm printed two volumes of The Royal Navy in a Series of Illustrations . |
| 15 | While at the University of Chicago ( where he met Ulu Grosbard ) , he made his living as a night janitor , hotel desk clerk and delivery truck driver . |
| 16 | He made his living as a photographer ( or one who retouched photographs ) . |
| 17 | On his return to London he made his living as a novelist and freelance journalist ; between 1886 and 1889 he published ten novels . |
| 18 | By now he made his living as a schoolmaster , in Loose and Maidstone . |
| 19 | He stammered his thanks as the Western sprang to life on the screen and Sweetheart slipped from her seat in a waft of perfume . |
| 20 | He lowered his head as the charged was read to him , that he murdered Nicola Jane Yates . |
| 21 | He succeeded his father as a JP for Cheshire in 1619 and served on the bench until his removal , as part of a purge by George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , on 26 October 1626 . |
| 22 | By the late tenth century he was venerated as St Kenelm , and an eleventh-century Life claimed that he succeeded his father as a child but was murdered by Cwenthryth . |
| 23 | He respected her talent as a model , he said , and would she tell him where she was performing ? |
| 24 | I got the impression he regarded his editorship as the high point of his life . |
| 25 | He caught his breath as the black fringes of her lashes swept upwards and the golden eyes met his . |
| 26 | He described his daughter as a shy , inoffensive and sensitive girl and a private person . |
| 27 | He described his action as a gesture of solidarity with Laurent Gbagbo , the imprisoned leader of the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , who received a two-year prison sentence in March following a riot in Abidjan in February [ see pp. 38753 ; 38802 ] . |
| 28 | To one correspondent , Elia Diodati , he described his book as a most ample confirmation of the Copernican system by showing the nullity of all that had been brought by Tycho and others to the contrary . ’ |
| 29 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 30 | Although I must confess that I was nervous and wary about meeting him , I had thought that he used his smile as a mask and his laugh as a barrier against what was probably monosyllabic narcissism . |