Example sentences of "went [adv] as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 2 | So he paid the A B C , went early as a result of ill health er but got a lump sum back cos he was n't allowed to go across this . |
| 3 | He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 . |
| 4 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 5 | Road transfer of these Spitfires to the Glasgow docks went flawlessly as a result of previously-gained experience . |
| 6 | Er and I went there as a boy after engines and things you know , in then , do you remember them ? |