Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He used his poetry as an autobiographical outlet , incorporating detailed personal matter about his illness into the dull routine of conventional composition and translation . |
| 3 | He joined his father as an ironworker in south Wales , progressing at Dowlais to become a foreman . |
| 4 | He sees his involvement as an opportunity to have his views heard by people who have some control of the services : ‘ I liked the idea of working with people in authority . |
| 5 | He sees his university as an embryo of the future . |
| 6 | He sees his age as an asset . |
| 7 | Soane was born in Goring on Thames , where his father was a bricklayer and he began his career as an errand-boy . |
| 8 | A ‘ full-back ’ , he began his career as an ‘ apprentice ’ with Birmingham City , making his ‘ full league ’ debut in the 1978/79 season . |
| 9 | Turning and seeing her , he affirms her deed as an act of faith : ‘ Daughter , your faith has made you well ; go in peace and be healed of your disease . ’ |
| 10 | He regards his appointment as an indication of the society 's determination to go-it-alone . |
| 11 | The painfully sensitive narrator of The Better Angel grows up to be a farmer , not a novelist , but there is still the sense that he tells his tale as an act of compulsive , faintly therapeutic , honesty . |
| 12 | In this way he re-establishes his image as an altogether innocent victim . |