Example sentences of "[noun] there as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 2 | He had spent a short period there as a singer , then formed a reputation at Bordeaux and elsewhere as a gifted opéra director and arranger . |
| 3 | An American flees to Amsterdam , depicting his life there as a chain of sadism and serial killing . |
| 4 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 5 | I 'm fairly sure that there will be someone on duty there as a matter of course but I 'll check . ’ |
| 6 | He had studied psychology at QUB from 1961 and made a reputation there as a debater , winning the Orator of the Year award in 1963 . |
| 7 | There 's good sport over that high pasture , I remember it well from my time there as a boy . |
| 8 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |