Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] as [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |
| 2 | Ponchos , like the one he 'd used as protection on the roof , covered their khaki uniforms . |
| 3 | He was wearing the démodé pinstriped suit he 'd got from a junk-shop for a production of Arturo Ui ( ‘ grossly overplayed' — Glasgow Herald ) and the tie he 'd worn as Harry in Marching Song ( ‘ adequate if uninspiring' — Oxford Mail . |
| 4 | The Danish invasion took place in A.D. 787 , and one Danish ruler , called Egbert , succeeded as King of Wessex , in A.D. 802 ; becoming overlord of Cornwall and Devonshire in 815 ; then King of Kent in 825 , and became known as King of the English , in 829 . |
| 5 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 6 | He was appointed controller of the printing business of Oxford University Press in 1883 : the position later became known as printer to the university . |
| 7 | Le Monde of Sept. 29 quoted Djohar as alleging that Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim , whom he had dismissed as head of government on July 4 [ see p. 38996 ; for his appointment in January 1992 see pp. 38706-07 ] , was behind the Sept. 26 coup attempt . |
| 8 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 9 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 10 | Finally , June announced that Beryl Smith had resigned as Chairman of the Training Committee to take some sabbatical leave . |
| 11 | The Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , the party with closest links to President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya , was led by Sid Ahmed Ould Baba , who had resigned as Minister of Interior , Posts and Communications in July . |
| 12 | It was reported on April 8 that Michel Mokuba Bokulo Mena , who had been appointed in the Cabinet reshuffle on March 28 , had resigned as Minister of Institutional Reforms apparently after disagreeing with the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Fresh elections here would be contested on Oct. 11 , and the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 9 reported that 26 candidates had come forward , including Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in late August in protest at the elections . |
| 14 | Among those elected was Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in August in protest at the elections . |
| 15 | Dhanabalan , an ally of Goh , had resigned as Minister of National Development in September 1992 . |
| 16 | On Feb. 26 it was reported that Andras Galszecsy had resigned as Minister without Portfolio in charge of national security affairs . |
| 17 | It was announced on Nov. 7 that William Bennett had resigned as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy . |
| 18 | Barnala had resigned as leader of the moderate Akali Dal ( Longowal ) faction on May 13 . |
| 19 | As reported on June 20 , Mario Vargas Llosa , the internationally known novelist , had resigned as leader of the right-wing Democratic Front ( FREDEMO ) apparently because of his other commitments in Europe . |
| 20 | He had even experienced it himself once or twice , particularly while doing the outline plans for a church he had designed as part of a new mixed-density , mixed-income neighbourhood scheme , which had been well reviewed in the journals . |
| 21 | It was William who had convinced Preston at an impressionable age that little girls , as they grew up , also grew ‘ two tits and a willy ’ , a fantasy which Preston had accepted as gospel for at least two years and which he sometimes thought still influenced his relations with the opposite sex . |
| 22 | Adam and Rufus had met as members of the same squash club . |
| 23 | The couple had met as teenagers at an evening class in 1949 , at Penge . |
| 24 | Bright stockings , and long hair , and trousers in untrouserlike colours like pink and lemon yellow , velvet jackets , loud voices and laughter , warned the staider citizens of Shorehaven that actors had arrived in their midst , an exotic flock of migrant birds whose fine plumage mocked the grey and tan and black that they had adopted as camouflage for the winter months . |
| 25 | Grujović , an Austrian Serb , had been professor of law at Kharkov , and had acted as secretary to the Serbian delegation which had been sent to St Petersburg to enlist the support of the Russians . |
| 26 | A reorganization of the Land Cabinet in Saxony-Anhalt took place on Aug. 16 , following the resignation of the Free Democrat deputy Minister President Gerd Brunner on Aug. 9 and of the Agriculture Minister four days later , over accusations that they had acted as agents for the former East German Ministry of State Security — the " Stasi " . |
| 27 | He was not the first of his family to serve the English crown , because his kinsman , Michel de Fiennes , had acted as chancellor to the Lord Edward during his stay in Gascony in 1254–5 . |
| 28 | It was becoming apparent that some of the companies which had acted as intermediaries in the sale of the land to Equidesa were also under investigation in connection with a fraud involving the sale of value added tax ( IVA-impuesto de valor agregado ) invoices . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the transaction might be upset if the debtor had acted as agent for the lender and had been guilty of misrepresentation or undue influence . |
| 30 | Hezarfen likewise classifies muftis as being of two types : either the Seyhulislam — who , from well before Hezarfen 's time , had acted as Mufti for the whole of the — or kenar muftileri . |