Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's my idea and I mean as a , then we got the other War . |
| 2 | An area representative is a volunteer , just like everybody here in this audience today , and I act as a link between the branches and headquarters , working with the area organiser but representing the branches , for me personally in Sussex . |
| 3 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 4 | One welcomes the provision that housing associations can make , and I speak as a member of the management committee of a housing association . |
| 5 | It is mind-blowing , and I speak as an expert . |
| 6 | After which , I decided to get into the leather producing industry rather than the purely merchanting business and I joined as a director of the main board . |
| 7 | and I think as a result of that it , it got disjointed and you , and you could n't follow it through . |
| 8 | He was a very physical person and I recall as a child lying on his chest . |
| 9 | If you had an accident and you died as a result |
| 10 | Well , that 's probably right erm I can just about remember it and you know as a child , and it did n't really sink in , it was some years afterwards before it actually sank in exactly what had been going on |
| 11 | Jessie was sitting up straight now , the tears running down her face , and she asked as a child might , ‘ What am I going to do ? ’ |
| 12 | She was looking at the the question of self-scripture , and she has as a a criteria for differentiation or some , or as you might say boundary marks , it 's a question of boundaries between different groups . |
| 13 | During World War I she was amongst the pacifist seceders from the NUWSS and she worked as a representative of the No-Conscription Fellowship for conscientious objectors at their trials by tribunal and for the Women 's Peace Crusade . |
| 14 | And Hilda was her maiden name , last seen forty nine years ago , she lived on Estate , , Nottingham and she worked as a labeller in the bottle department of Brewery . |
| 15 | Suddenly unease rose inside her and she faltered as a sudden thought struck her . |
| 16 | She was twenty-eight , I discovered ; her parents ( mother French , father English ) had separated some years previously when Pater had done a runner with a bimbo ; and she toiled as a handmaiden of the arts , rendering fresh the faded pigments of yesteryear . |
| 17 | Then abruptly he took one pointing nipple between his lips , pulling on it , and she gasped as a streak of fire ran through her , and his hands grew urgent , the thrusting caresses of his long fingers so expert that fulfilment soon came flooding in shock-waves which surged through her entire body . |
| 18 | ‘ We wanted to do that and we went as a family , including Andre and Alex , ’ says Andrew . |
| 19 | The Bridgenorse , Bridgenorth I beg your pardon initiative is proceeding er , in terms of an advisory group , and we have as a committee , a Councillor Tony , a regional member , recently take , took the place of er , Councillor on that group , and he is willing to continue . |
| 20 | They were unusually powerful visions of the natural beauty of the universe , and they acted as a reminder of her place in the cosmos . |
| 21 | Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail . |
| 22 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 23 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 24 | His style is lucid and he emerges as an honest broker who judiciously weighs the historical evidence . |
| 25 | George helped the Palace to gain promotion from Division Four in his first season at Selhurst Park , during which he made full appearances for us , and he continued as a first-team regular under Dick Graham , to become one of only two men to appear in both the 1961 and 1964 promotion sides . |
| 26 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 27 | The West End then beckoned , and he appeared as a solid juvenile in a sequence of light comedies . |
| 28 | His mind was the richest repository of the past : he had been a child oblate at Canterbury before the Conquest ; he had heard all the gossip of the older monks as a child , and he remembered as an adult all that he had heard . |
| 29 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 30 | As Mr. Ratcliffe pointed out , others suffer similarly and he gave as a worse example a village called Iwade , situated on the main road to Sheerness Docks . |