Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I when I when I trained as recruit I trained with a lot of other er lot of other people . |
| 2 | What I learnt as Home Secretary , unlike myself as Home , Home Secretary , with a police department , with the inspectorate , you having a backing , the local police authorities do not . |
| 3 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 4 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 5 | I flew as co-pilot , we had a veteran pilot who would be Aeroplane Commander , the rest of the crew was green or also on their first mission . |
| 6 | Alongside the usual duties of a curate , I worked as leader of a faith sharing team which was sent out to many parishes leading weekends of renewal and weeks of mission . |
| 7 | Our post found some bunting , and George and I dressed as tin soldiers . |
| 8 | I said as Bet said they ought to have a one way over there that 's what they ought to have . |
| 9 | I had as lief do my own endeavour ! ’ |
| 10 | We were called to an explosion and house fire in Sutton-in-Ashfield and I responded as Officer in Charge and I pulled up outside , we dealt with the fire and then we began the investigation to find out what had happened . |
| 11 | He produced in the palm of his right hand two slender plastic spools , which I recognized as nostovision bullets , ready to be inserted into the head-laser . |
| 12 | And he took out of his wallet a tiny piece of paper , which I recognized as part of my sketch book , and showed it to me . |
| 13 | Her opposition to what she regarded as adventurism and ultra-leftism was shown in 1969 when she resigned from the executive together with Conn McCluskey , John McAnerney and Fred Heatley in protest at NICRA involvement with the People 's Democracy ( PD ) . |
| 14 | Secondly she said there must be a change from the habit of dualism to , what she described as interconnectialism We must see a relationship between things . |
| 15 | In 1915 she helped to organize an international women 's peace conference at The Hague , and until 1922 she acted as treasurer to the Women 's International League . |
| 16 | From time to time she acted as research adviser to the Cambridge students who came to her laboratory for instruction . |
| 17 | In 1865 Octavia Hill gave the realists further impetus when , with Ruskin 's help , she bought slum dwellings at Paradise Place to which she acted as manager , visiting the tenants frequently , in part to collect the rents which she spent on improvements . |
| 18 | She sympathised with the Duchess of York as she fought against her lack of freedom , she was tactful and kind when her own daughter told her that her marriage was dead and , finally , she acted as mediator to Charles and Diana as they fought out the death throes of their loveless union . |
| 19 | In November 1859 she served as secretary to the newly founded National Association for the Promotion of Social Science 's committee to consider new channels of employment for women . |
| 20 | She served as president of the geographical section of the British Association in 1922 . |
| 21 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 22 | Of course , she too eventually left my staff to get married , but I can vouch that during the time she worked as housekeeper under me , she was nothing less than dedicated and never allowed her professional priorities to be distracted . |
| 23 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |
| 24 | One sister , Merope , was represented by a fainter star than the rest because , according to the myth , she took as mate a mortal , Sisyphus , rather than a god , like the others . |
| 25 | Sorry to sound a little perverse on that issue , but I , we really wanted to have a clear indication of what you felt as District Planning Officers , er an and indeed we 'll hear what the County feel and in fact have pursued through this alteration , but can I again , just for clarification , and in fact it 's a sort of final head count , er and again I raise this in the context of P P G three paragraph thirty three , and that is the degree of acceptability , or otherwise , by the local planning authorities , erm and I only need a nod from you , or otherwise , for the record . |
| 26 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
| 27 | Friends and colleagues say she was motivated by what she saw as cruelty in the meat trade . |
| 28 | Q. Which you took as encouragement to continue ? |
| 29 | Twelve months ago you nominated as Treasurer of the Labour Party . |
| 30 | You test it out the next morning is n't it interesting you remembered as proof of the pudding . |