Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 2 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 3 | But he acquired it as an onlooker . |
| 4 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 5 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |