Example sentences of "as a [noun] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Dalgliesh knew of Alice Mair 's reputation as a cookery writer he had never read any of her books and had no idea to what culinary school , if any , she belonged . |
| 2 | As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 3 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 4 | As a doubles player he leaves even Boris Becker behind . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 6 | On Feb. 27 Spegelj reportedly sent a letter reminding the prosecutor that as a government member he enjoyed immunity from prosecution . |
| 7 | Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used . |
| 8 | It was said that if the defendant took employment as a milk roundsman he would not be able to solicit orders for milk from any of the customers who had had their chairs renovated by the plaintiff company . |
| 9 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 10 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
| 11 | Some soup or little homemade cakes , convinced that as a grass widower he could n't cope . |
| 12 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 13 | Viewers latched on to , and sympathized with , a vulnerable character who was unable to keep a job — as a security guard he lost his dog and as a fireman he kept missing the fire engine — and roared with laughter as his world collapsed around him . |
| 14 | As a postgraduate physicist he had already had several requests for industrial consultancy advice resulting from his involvement in research into the behaviour of semiconductors , an area that was developing very fast . |
| 15 | Even as a harmonica player he had to come to England to get work . |
| 16 | As a writing partner he had two rare gifts : the ability to get us unstuck with some inspired off-the-wall conceit when I was enmeshed in very on-the-wall musings ; and in addition , the priceless talent of knowing whether something was funny or not . |
| 17 | As a schoolboy prank he leaned forward to staple the boy in front 's jacket to his chair . |
| 18 | It 's still not clear how the man set fire to himself , but as a remand prisoner he was allowed cigarettes and matches in his cell . |
| 19 | But as a model prisoner he was back on the streets within three years after remission for good behaviour . |
| 20 | Small wonder therefore that as a drama critic he grasped the significance of R. C. Sherriff 's famous play , Journey 's End , in 1929 . |
| 21 | As a cabinet minister he was keenly aware of the increasing weakness of the government , as James Craig , first Viscount Craigavon [ q.v. ] , prime minister since 1921 , lost control of affairs in the 1930s . |
| 22 | Marcos had arranged the hand-out as a PR gesture he could easily afford , since he largely owned the pharmaceutical companies . |
| 23 | As a forest justice he earned some notoriety . |
| 24 | As a restaurant manager he appointed Drew Nieporent , the man behind one of his favourite NY eateries , Montrachet . |
| 25 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 26 | He is pinning the future of the company on the success of NeXTStep , saying that 90% of its sales effort will go towards marketing the software : ‘ customers will decide ’ whether NeXT continues as a hardware operation he said . |
| 27 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 28 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 29 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 30 | As an apprentice plumber he endured years of chilblains and chapped hands due to constant submersion in cold water until he set himself up in business in London . |