Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police . |
| 2 | Paxton made him foreman of works at Prince 's Park , Liverpool , in 1844 , and after completion he remained as superintendent . |
| 3 | During the Boer War he acted as chief of staff to French . |
| 4 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 5 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |
| 6 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 7 | He filled the central midfield vacancy created by the injury to Paul Bracewell , but never quite reproduced the form he showed as captain of Leeds . |
| 8 | As a Catholic and exemplar civil servant he acted as adviser to and mediator between the government and the Catholic Church authorities . |