Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 2 | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes . |
| 3 | ‘ Leeds were always at the back of my mind as the side I would like to join if I came back to England , ’ said the 6ft 2in , 16 stone Iro . |
| 4 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 5 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 6 | With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord 's servant … |
| 7 | Oh yes , I used to be known in , in , in , in my area as the kitchen man , you know , and sort of , people used to talk in the pubs and they 'd say , oh well you know , my missus wants a new kitchen . |
| 8 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 9 | And I ended up in the erm my ended my career as the in , I was in charge of the stone , stone masonry office working for the funeral manager . |
| 10 | My career as the world 's fastest cyclist was ended sharply by my protruding teeth . |
| 11 | But , more importantly , I have learnt not to see any stage of my life as the final one . |
| 12 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 13 | ‘ My superiors would have dismissed Graham 's allegations about my past as the ramblings of a broken man . |
| 14 | However , I must remind you that earlier versions of the principle of nationality , which I describe in my book as the ‘ revolutionary-democratic ’ and ‘ liberal ’ , are not so based , although there are overlaps . |
| 15 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
| 16 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 17 | My stint as the early-hours man really was a killer . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I was damned if I was going to have people going around talking about my system as the Cherkin shit experiment . ’ |
| 19 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 20 | I still had no idea where we were going , but I kept the A-Z up against my face as the Sierra overtook me . |
| 21 | In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA . |
| 22 | Sighs of relief stuck in my throat as the cacophony of rumbles and clangs which portends a tractor with a roller in tow , carried round the corner . |
| 23 | There we elders heard what we had despaired of hearing — a lecture on Comus which placed its importance where the poet placed it — and watched ‘ the yonge fresshe folkes he or she ’ who filled the benches listening first with incredulity , then with toleration , and finally with delight , to something so strange and new in their experience as the praise of chastity . |
| 24 | Their experience as the following comments clearly demonstrate : |
| 25 | Rather than ministering to a small elite , these institutions had now established their function as the " education of the upper intelligence groups of the nation " , selected according to criteria which included being " good " at English in school . |
| 26 | Singapore is building on its base as the world 's biggest container port , which it won from Hong Kong two years ago , and is offering tax incentives to shipping companies which move there . |
| 27 | There is some partial evidence of its existence as the expenditure estimates of gross national product ( based on the Family Expenditure Survey ) regularly exceed the estimates from the income side . |
| 28 | Private Members ' Bills not only preserve an important margin of policy initiative for backbench MPs , but Westminster 's increasing role as a centre for interest lobbying also strengthens its function as the crucible of interest representation in political life . |
| 29 | It is that the Fund , through lack of accountability , has failed over the past year to fulfil its function as the main conduit for aid to Russia . |
| 30 | Its interest lies in its function as the creed of a reforming élite , confronted with the difficulties of a state-sponsored economic revival in an under-developed economy , a revival that had to contend with the resistances of the traditional structure and the misrepresentations of a peculiarly narrow Catholic conservatism . |