Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view . |
| 2 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 3 | When the man came from I would n't know , but I just felt as a op coopted parish councillor that I should make my voice heard on behalf of all the people that complain to me . |
| 4 | Well I just thought as a woman not , you know as a person |
| 5 | But you ca n't I only get it on line one because line two I just use as an a as an incoming call line , or if I 'm . |
| 6 | Chairman could I just ask as the minute taker to er clarify the , the remit of the er educational seminar ? |
| 7 | Your Royal Highness , Ladies and Gentlemen my name 's Rod I normally masquerade as the Chief Racing Coach for the Royal Yachting Association but I 'm not here in that capacity this afternoon but the coordinator rather a grand title for the Year of Youth Sailing and I 've been asked to give you a short ten minutes or so briefing on where we 're up to with th this project this year erm I know there are many familiar faces around so I apologize to those of you that may know some of this information already . |
| 8 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 9 | I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor . |
| 10 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 11 | I still keep as a bookmark my ticket for the 1989 Revolution Day parade in Red Square . |
| 12 | I managed to grab a seat , or a seatette , for what I still regarded as a trip to Bangkok ( that is , a trip to your auntie might take , not Timothy Leary ) . |
| 13 | I wanted to be a winner when I played football and I still do as a manager . ’ |
| 14 | Now , although I have great respect for er , the representative of the Osteoporosis Society I se , I still think as a epidemiologist that there have n't been enough women on H R T for long enough |
| 15 | So I quickly dressed as a young man and followed you home to Baker Street . |
| 16 | A wobbling of the stepping stone , a panicky leap — and I landed sprawling on a soft , spongy blanket of sphagnum moss : to find the fingers of my right hand touching a small plant — which I instantly recognised as the common sundew . |
| 17 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 18 | I also work as a lunchtime supervisor at the school so it 's nice to watch some of the children who went to playgroup grow up . |
| 19 | We sat around his bed and he went into one of the formidable silences which I now accepted as the concomitant of wisdom . |
| 20 | ‘ No , no , I now rank as an important contact , a senior opinion-former , or so she flatteringly told me . |
| 21 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 22 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 23 | I never believed as a Tory MP to be in a situation where I would condemn the actions of a Tory Government in a matter of this kind . ’ |
| 24 | I wanted the girls to have an opportunity that I never had as a child . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew we was onto a good 'un when we comes to Sinkport , but I never guessed as the old scallywag 'imself 'ud be 'ere . |
| 26 | I currently work as the Technical Officer for the Mountain Leader Training Board . |
| 27 | What a shame that we did n't — or could n't — see more of the role that the Queen actively plays in British politics in the television portrait filmed to mark her 40 years in what she memorably described as a ‘ job for life ’ . |
| 28 | Because the tall , dark and extremely handsome man — whom she only recognised as the mega-rich industrialist , Ross Wyndham when it was far too late to do anything about it ! — seemed to move across the pavement with the speed of light . |
| 29 | She only swallows as a special treat if I 've been really good or something . |
| 30 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |