Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may train as a nurse . ’ |
| 2 | He went on : ‘ I feel that , as a minister of a parish having no other resident gentleman , I ought to act as a guardian of my own poor ; and if 00 should neglect any opportunity , which the Lord may place within my reach … |
| 3 | And there was one point on my form note which er , was because I 'm responsible for recruitment and training procedures , a lot of the documents which , related forms which I should hold as a decision , I should think more sensible for Elizabeth to hold masters of . |
| 4 | Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When Glyndebourne commissioned my Paraphrase for their 1992 Mozart season , it was they who determined which opera I should use as a background for my piece . |
| 6 | Well do you want to go take some of the other patients that day and I 'll go as an escort ? |
| 7 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 8 | I 'll stick as a visitor , thanks . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll come as no surprise to you that er what 's been suggested would be consistent with the sorts of arguments that that I put forward yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ I was at last certain that , despite total deafness and the cacophony of tinnitus , I could continue as an MP . ’ |
| 11 | I could go as a Gnome , with the broom in my hand and Lend a Hand printed on my front ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn . |
| 13 | ‘ I had thought that the 1950s was a fairly stagnant , dull time which I could use as a sort of launch pad for the more interesting periods of post-Independence history . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , I do n't know how I 'd cope as a solo artist because we 're a real support group to each other . |
| 15 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 16 | I used to work as a boy I did on . |
| 17 | I remember clearly how I used to feel as a child in chapel on Sundays . |
| 18 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 19 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 20 | Speaking on BBC TV 's Election Call programme , he said he could not provide ‘ an in-all-circumstances ’ undertaking on how his party would react , saying that he was being asked ‘ how I would play as a batsman the third ball in the fourth over after next . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I shall do as the Direktor wishes . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I will stay as a governess with the Robinson family , ’ Anne said sadly . |
| 23 | ‘ I will go as an all-rounder , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ I will act as a conduit to pass on information to the OFT , but only the OFT has the power to amend its report . ’ |
| 25 | I can confirm as a matter of fact that the Scottish National party did not join the convention , although some distinguished individuals , no doubt at some political disadvantage to themselves , were prepared to do so . |
| 26 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 27 | Burnishing the paintwork on a hot loco on a warm day , I can recommend as a way to lose those extra pounds . |
| 28 | During the period between the two wars in the twenties and thirties a quite successful team played in Halling , and I can recall as a lad spending many hours watching them . |
| 29 | Yes I I can remember as a child my grandmother 's erm , family all lived in the east end and I can remember that the you know on the occasions that they used to come down and see us there was always tins of fruit and all sorts of |
| 30 | And I can remember as a child my mother had to go , my sister , myself , and my father . |