Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 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 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 4 | ‘ I am willing to use my skills as a paramedic to accompany someone requiring medical care or to instruct first aid to any organisation in exchange for the flight , ’ she said . |
| 5 | One respondent in this school of thought commented on the strength of the bond between even inadequate parents and children , saying : ‘ The astounding thing , in my experience as a social worker , is that for the most part kids are crazy about their parents , even when they 're being badly treated . ’ |
| 6 | It is a personal , highly subjective account which seeks to relate my experience as an Irish lesbian , my involvement in political action at that time and my subsequent emigration to England in the mid-seventies . |
| 7 | But I have this nagging suspicion that my luck as a first-timer tour group leader can not hold . |
| 8 | It is possible , for example , to place nine of my readings of SF texts at the nine nodes , according to my judgement as a single reader . |
| 9 | We never did in fact get another , but the idea has remained in my mind as a good one . |
| 10 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 11 | ‘ Solipsism ’ is defined by my dictionary as a metaphysical term which views the self as the only knowable , or the only existent , thing . |
| 12 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 13 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 14 | ‘ I cocked my weapon as an immediate reaction . |
| 15 | As to judicial lawmaking , the practice of prospective overruling has attracted my attention as a hard case for those theories of judicial process which involve a strong commitment to coherence , consistency and institutional fit . |
| 16 | I 'm now playing live again , and I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing . |
| 17 | ‘ I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing ’ |
| 18 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 19 | From my days as a weekly newspaper reporter , my enthusiasm and affection for journalism have never lessened . |
| 20 | ‘ I accept your favour , my lady , although I may not wear it on my sleeve as a true knight should . |
| 21 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 22 | But I wo n't promise it 'll be unquestioning , because I refuse to relinquish my right as an intelligent human being to question everything I do n't understand or accept . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We should emphasise that we do have opinions on what is happening , but in my place as an official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs I can not go into comments without having all-inclusive information and orders in that regard . ’ |
| 24 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 25 | appeals to my pride as a failed consumer . |
| 26 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 27 | My platform as an Independent Socialist was ‘ put the U back into the Union ’ and I believe I mentioned my disability once , but only in passing . |
| 28 | My father as a medical student , my mother as a psychologist . |
| 29 | But I quickly found out that they were just ‘ sussing me out ’ — seeing how tough I was — and when my novelty as a new boy wore off , I was out in the cold . |
| 30 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |