Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 2 | THE INSPIRALS ' sound is the real thing : noisy , tinny , grumpy , fast , lyrical , roaring , dossy as a billygoat 's eyes . |
| 3 | Roles began his career by serving his apprenticeship as a photographer 's assistant after leaving school , but then transferred to an education in sculpture and painting . |
| 4 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 5 | A. How about this team as a printer 's delight ? |
| 6 | One had a full-time secretarial job , one had a part-time factory job ( for four hours each morning ) , three did part-time cleaning jobs ( two in the evening , one in the morning ) and one housewife had a Saturday job as a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 7 | Her mother was willing to look after the baby , so she got a fulltime job as a teacher 's assistant in a mental home . |
| 8 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 9 | Harriet got a job as a dentist 's receptionist and lived on lentils and poached eggs in a hostel until the dentist asked her to marry him . |
| 10 | As Foucault and others have argued , the construction and then privileging of the author as a text 's origins is a product of editorial desire , matched with assumptions that establishing origins is a way of clarifying a text 's destination . |
| 11 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 12 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |
| 13 | Outside was a lawn , clipped trim as a general 's moustache , but browning in patches and along the edge as though the general were a heavy smoker . |
| 14 | I remember watching Ian 's first match for Border as a Queen 's College schoolboy . |
| 15 | A date stone , 1784 , is on the adjoining bakehouse , which later in life saw service as a blacksmith 's shop . |
| 16 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 17 | ‘ Red as a baboon 's bum . |
| 18 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 19 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 20 | She has a small part in a new Christopher Columbus movie , due out in February , and a lead role as a brewer 's daughter with ambitions in Monty Python man Eric Idle 's new film comedy Splitting Heirs . |
| 21 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 22 | A quick investigation in a dictionary reveals that this curious sounding device started life as a bull 's Penis . |
| 23 | But , by now , the violence has crept north , and I stop and watch in amazement as a Newberry 's drugstore at Venice and Western literally explodes before my eyes , a mushroom of smoke and flames towering 200 feet into the night sky . |
| 24 | Most of us can name a few particular books , read in the pre-college years , that influenced our choice of science as a life 's work . |
| 25 | After his marriage , William gave up his employment as a ship 's captain to manage his father-in-law 's estate and business affairs . |
| 26 | She had been deeply conscious of her position as a canon 's widow . |
| 27 | I want to reinterpret the metaphor of the fifties , of childhood as a community 's investment in the future , and find its material base in the individual circumstances that help interpret historical developments . |
| 28 | But Gabriel had spent a year as a stonemason 's apprentice , clinging to the rafters and cornices of holy buildings , finishing off or preparing the stone . |
| 29 | Norman , who left school at fourteen , did around a year as a plumber 's mate before running away from home and working on a Norwegian ship bound for Persia . |
| 30 | It was originally launched at the turn of the century as a woman 's paper and was re-launched in the period 1935 — 7 in its more working class , non-Conservative mould . |