Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |
| 2 | He gave land to Chad at Barrow in Lindsey for the building of a monastery ( HE IV , 3 ) , and when Chad died Wynfrith , who succeeded him as bishop , was evidently abbot of Barrow ( HE IV , 6 ) . |
| 3 | In the early 1640s Best compiled an account of his farming methods and other country matters , such as ‘ the fashions att our Country weddings ’ , for the benefit of his son , John ( 1620–69 ) , who succeeded him as lord of the manor . |
| 4 | One problem with the evaluation of these results is the possibility that the women who described themselves as housewives did so because this was an interview about housework . |
| 5 | There was always an enormous difference between the economic perceptions of those who initially had Conservative and Labour preferences , especially those who described themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |
| 6 | In a few generations , there was a new class of Britons who regarded themselves as part of the Roman empire and ‘ Roman ’ in a broad sense . |
| 7 | Again , this feature was copied from the West Indians who used it as part of their own hairstyles . |
| 8 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 9 | The Kingdom of God means the reign of Jesus Christ over those people who acknowledge him as Lord . |
| 10 | From their perspective , family problems were often underestimated by the agencies and their sense of parental responsibility , exercised in trying to ‘ get something done ’ , was violated by social workers who misinterpreted it as lack of commitment to their children 's needs ( Fisher et al . , |
| 11 | A presentation was made by Dr. Alan Wilson , who succeeds her as chairman . |
| 12 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 13 | In the middle of his harrowing report he let slip a sentence , and we hear from that monster of objectivity inside every artist who sees everything as grist to the mill . |
| 14 | In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places . |
| 15 | Do women who describe themselves as housewives really resent/disapprove of/despise mothers who go out to work ? |
| 16 | The Japanese government , who claimed them as nationals , demanded that Beijing punish the offenders and pay compensation . |
| 17 | It means God 's saving grace working through individuals and communities of people who know him as Saviour and Lord to influence a wider society . |
| 18 | She was evidently an old acquaintance of Madame Gebrec , who addressed her as Huguette and made solicitous enquiries about her varicose veins before the two of them began a lively discussion of the menu . |
| 19 | Having spent almost all this money on adventurous travelling in South America , the United States , and Canada , he returned in 1908 and was rescued this time by his brother , who employed him as manager of his motor-car showroom in Brighton . |
| 20 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 21 | The final way of getting on to the Council in a given year was by being an ypilachó0n or stand-in , and that may explain some instances of ‘ carpet-baggers ’ , i.e. political adventurers who offered themselves as Councillors for demes other than their home deme . |
| 22 | He was subsequently traced and cleared by Oxford police , who knew him as Stephen Smith , a wandering sheet music salesman . |
| 23 | Who saw himself as Jesus , really , and although Jesus came to save the world , he saved the world in a rather masochistic manner , by getting crucified . |
| 24 | Who , anyway , would want to read an autobiography of someone who saw himself as God 's gift to aviation and the RAF in particular ? |
| 25 | I wanted to pick someone who saw herself as part of the community and yet stood up for her rights . |
| 26 | But the EC President 's demand for solidarity angered Euro-sceptics , who saw it as Brussels trying to dictate British policy on a wide range of issues . |
| 27 | Instead , it was a man who introduced himself as Dr Tom Courtney . |
| 28 | One morning , for instance , after monitoring radio traffic all night in the NARCOG listening post he had set up in his back bedroom , Coleman reluctantly opened his apartment door to a caller who introduced himself as David Mills , a British photographer for Newsweek . |
| 29 | The Captain , who introduced himself as Hans Blasendorf , sheathed his sabre . |
| 30 | ‘ Strictly for the servants — and Japanese of course , ’ added a lady who introduced herself as Mrs Fawcett , and asked anxiously , ‘ Do you play bridge , Doctor ? ’ |