Example sentences of "and [vb past] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1894 he lost his job and failed as a cobbler . |
| 2 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 3 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 4 | He had an excellent temperament and lived as a family pet . |
| 5 | Linked to an alleged coup attempt by Mao 's then heir-apparent Lin Biao in 1971 , Chen was arrested and reviled as a traitor . |
| 6 | Automatic weighing machines are very accurate and sample packs are taken regularly and weighed as a check . |
| 7 | And used as a medicine as well . |
| 8 | And used as a medicine ? |
| 9 | Turning to head for the pool , she gasped and staggered as a figure loomed before her |
| 10 | I then learnt yoga and trained as a teacher . |
| 11 | If he takes no action , well and good ; if he seeks an injunction , the issue can be litigated and appealed as a matter of principle , without the danger of suffering a heavy penalty for an offence — eg of contempt of court — which has already been committed . |
| 12 | He trained and practised as a solicitor , was excessively conscientious , and always warned his clients , as he warned himself , that any ill-thought out actions could spell disaster of some unspecified kind . |
| 13 | Our first trek , up Gunung Mulu , was the hardest of the whole expedition and came as a shock to the system . |
| 14 | He became from Hetton-le-Hole , a quaintly named colliery village in north east County Durham and played as a back for Ferryhill and later Eppleton in the Wearside league which , at that time , was a prolific nursery for Football League clubs . |
| 15 | Inmates were divided into groups of five , and usually lived , worked and ate as a group . |
| 16 | He reported that he had met a survivor from the heroic days , an ancient Indian hag , he said , bald as a vulture and wizened as a walnut , with one black tooth left in her head . |
| 17 | In and near Moscow are a number of other monasteries and churches built between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries , all of Byzantine character but displaying individually Russian features particularly in the domes and the stepped ogee , triangular and rounded shell formations ( called kokoshniki ) which topped the main building and acted as a base for the tower or cupola drums . |
| 18 | In later years Barcelona and the region to the north formed part of the kingdom of Arragon , and acted as a buffer against Saracen invasions into the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 20 | Those who saw her last television programme , A Winter Too Many , will remember the extremely poignant sequence — and the tears — when she said farewell to her ‘ family ’ , the beloved beasts , as they wended their way down the road from Low Birk Hatt to new ownership , led by the senior cow — ‘ Rosa , my lovely Rosa ’ — who had given Hannah the only available warm drink , her milk , and acted as a radiator when the power failed at Low Birk Hatt during the last savage winter . |
| 21 | Like most of his judicial colleagues , he was also appointed in 1285 to a vacation assize circuit and acted as a gaol delivery justice . |
| 22 | The rivet would have gone through the tang of the triangular-shaped blade and acted as a pivot point . |
| 23 | When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives . |
| 24 | Purchased fifty years since , and began as a page in Damascus . ’ |
| 25 | But with the weighted handbag , and swung as a mace , they afforded small protection . |
| 26 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 27 | Clifford Race volunteered for the army during the First World War and served as a farrier . |
| 28 | Apples became a favourite fruit for the Romans , and they were dried and served as a relish in winter or eaten sour in the summer as refreshment after arduous work . |
| 29 | In 1624 he obtained leave of absence from the University and served as a Member of Parliament . |
| 30 | Palmer was a freeman of the Drapers ' Company by patrimony and served as a member of the court ( 1792–5 ) . |