Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there was no appeal , in my opinion the Home Secretary was bound to change his policy for discretionary life sentence cases as he did in 1987 . |
| 2 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 3 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 4 | The US prosecutors painted the accused as ‘ a crooked cop ’ , co-operating for $4.6 million ( £2.6 million ) with the Medellin cocaine cartel by shielding US-bound drug shipments as they moved through Panama . |
| 5 | Zerrer like her assistant Margo , who is busying herself about the Centre supervising clients as they get into their goggles , turns out to be , unsurprisingly , a new age devotee , though she cringes at the mention of the words . |
| 6 | It does not seem to work well with some 16 bit computers as they have quite complex keyboard electronics , and rather indirect means of reading the keys . |
| 7 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 8 | Thankfully he went up to it , getting a grip on its side ropes as he surfaced . |
| 9 | The subscribers ought to be allowed the ‘ free entrance of light into these their pleasure houses as it steals from heaven without embargo or blockade . ’ |
| 10 | Although they need not be ambitious in scope or very systematically organized , pilot studies are in general a useful preliminary to large research projects as they help to identify unexpected difficulties of many kinds and offer guidelines to overall design . |
| 11 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , a High Court judge warned of a serious problem because of a log-jam of refugee cases as he gave leave for two of them to seek judicial review of Home Office decisions to refuse them asylum . |
| 13 | I think erm one would have to ac er accept that in Greater York , erm the existing pattern of trunk roads as they affect Greater York , do discharge an important function in distributing people around er Greater York and it 's entirely sensible in the Greater York dimension that they would do . |
| 14 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 15 | The observation posts have a dual purpose — to collate information on the movements of suspected republican terrorists , and to deter loyalist murder gangs as they launch attacks in staunchly nationalist areas . |
| 16 | The two parties walk in opposite directions and exchange car keys as they pass midway or , better still , at a rendezvous at the conspicuous landmark of Lady 's Pillar . |
| 17 | An attacker may break into your empty car and hide behind the front seats , or wait for you to fumble for your car keys as you approach . |
| 18 | I feel happier wrapped , and able to eat as many buttered tea cakes as I like . |
| 19 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 20 | In this last section we highlight some important research areas as we see them . |
| 21 | Her mind ran on the wedding celebrations as she moved to the window where a stray shaft of sunlight , escaping through the thick cloud , threw a beam across the parquet floor . |
| 22 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 23 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
| 24 | Gainsborough 's house … to say nothing of huge grey sweeps of empty beach from which , at Aldeburgh , you can buy goggle-eyed skate direct from the fishing boats as they come out of the water . |
| 25 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 26 | It is likely that many follow-up meetings will need to be held after the initial announcement is made to communicate progress and to deal with employee problems as they occur . |
| 27 | But , as they approached , the men broke up and ran into the stadium , vaulting the entrance turnstiles as they went . |
| 28 | As you use your trimming , turn the ends under and secure with a pin or stick Sellotape over the cut edges as they fray . |
| 29 | They would eat the carrion of the carrion eaters as they journeyed south , out of the forbidden place . |
| 30 | It landed on the floor where it lay on its back , its numerous legs doing cycling motions as it tried to right itself . |