Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 2 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 3 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 4 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 5 | This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’ |
| 6 | I lived as a beggar , scrounging what I could , but then winter came , not only early but cruelly , one of the sharpest , coldest winters for decades . |
| 7 | I was n't sure I qualified as a surfer yet , but I hoped I might benefit from this general disposition . |
| 8 | Frances explains : ‘ I decided to go into special education two years after I qualified as a teacher . |
| 9 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 10 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 11 | I trained as a Theatre Designer , but all three are about space and volume with people in it . |
| 12 | I trained as a physicist and spent many years in laser research , first in Canada and then at the NPL in Teddington . |
| 13 | This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor . |
| 14 | I trained as a lawyer and I think that helps . |
| 15 | When I trained as a reader , I had to write essays on a range of Biblical subjects , and then discuss them with a tutor . |
| 16 | I had tied a three inch strip of webbing between the shafts , which I used as a harness . |
| 17 | I had another l pipe , piece of water pipe , which I used as a balancing device , but I found , with the watering pipe you are so stable you feel it 's a shame to be seen holding on . |
| 18 | The ‘ Snowball turnips that I used as a catch crop wherever a patch fell vacant were deliciously tender and sweet ; so too were the young ‘ Early Nantes ’ carrots I cropped among the ‘ Topper ’ shallots . |
| 19 | I shall certainly answer the question , because we have a policy to which I alluded as a result of an interruption made by the Government Whip . |
| 20 | I came as a foreigner and I 'm told that Suffolk people were stand-offish , difficult to get to know and you 'd be a foreigner for years . |
| 21 | After which , I decided to get into the leather producing industry rather than the purely merchanting business and I joined as a director of the main board . |
| 22 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 23 | ‘ I really wanted to create a reference book for my twin daughters , Alicia and Alexandra , of all the recipes I loved as a child , and still like cooking , ’ explains Sheila . |
| 24 | I 'll take you to all the places I loved as a girl . |
| 25 | ‘ … after that I worked as a secretary . |
| 26 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 27 | I worked as a dress machinist . |
| 28 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 29 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets up , let me say that I worked as a probation officer in the King 's Cross area , which was one of the most difficult areas for homelessness in the 1970s . |
| 30 | I worked as a lodge boy . |