Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 2 | But the car lived on as a classic . |
| 3 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 4 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 5 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 6 | His departure is described as amicable and he will stay on as a consultant . |
| 7 | If only he had thought of recorking his wine after dégorgement , then the perfectly limpid sparkling wine he had managed to achieve for himself and , no doubt , passed on as a ‘ tip ’ to others , would have been available to everybody . |
| 8 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 9 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 10 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 11 | I said , ‘ I am older than you , sir ( how easily that polite ‘ sir ’ crept in as a mode of address ! ) — old enough to discover that finding out often leads to less pleasurable states of mind than mere ignorance ! ’ |
| 12 | Formed in as a three-piece , they now have four members in their ranks and play music which has been described as a cross between Sonic Youth and Stiff Little Fingers . |
| 13 | In June 1989 , Neville Hodgkinson and Peter Gillman of the Sunday Times reported that Clive Ahrens had been found to have aluminium in his hip bone , laid down as a band ( as is common in people living in areas of high lead in water ) . |
| 14 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 15 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 16 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 17 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 18 | She lived in as a bride . |
| 19 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 20 | what would you like to go down as a scrubber ? |
| 21 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 22 | Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore . |
| 23 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 24 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 25 | The " fast-track " procedure allowed any agreement reached by US negotiators to be subsequently voted on as a package [ see p. 37849 ] . |
| 26 | The General looks on as a cadet is singled out to deliver his orders to others from his platoon . |
| 27 | I was a European top salesman with er that company and then moved on as a franchise . |
| 28 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 29 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 30 | They had just simply and totally fallen out of love with each other , and like the devout Catholics they were , carried on as a pretence . |