Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , like the liquidator , the administrative receiver can compel those involved in the affairs of the company to provide him with information relating to the company 's affairs and is also obliged to report to the Secretary of State if he forms the opinion that the conduct of a director makes him unfit to act as a director of a company . |
| 2 | In fact he returned to Amsterdam , but in 1681 he agreed to serve as leader of the English Sephardi community which had been so generous to him years before . |
| 3 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he failed to impress as a full-back . |
| 5 | " Are you — he tried to speak as a real writer would one of my regular readers ? " |
| 6 | Mr Lamont , who will be sipping at the despatch box from Highland Spring water and Highland Park whisky , has broken the traditional Treasury silence in the run-up to the Budget to fight for his political survival by stating publicly he wants to remain as Chancellor . |
| 7 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in our bodies , which he wants to use as his temple ( Cor. 6:19 ) . |
| 8 | He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor . |
| 9 | I was going to ask Mike if he wants to come as an observer because he 's never been to conference and erm |
| 10 | DR DAVID OWEN , the former SDP leader , gave his endorsement yesterday to Mr Major , saying he deserved to continue as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | As ‘ an unrepentant believer in the Commission 's unitary plan ’ he came to accept as an advance on the existing system the Conservative proposals for ‘ two tiers everywhere ’ and in particular the establishment of ‘ the principle of metropolitan counties for great conurbations ’ ( foreword to Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 12 | He plans to act as their agent and intends to create films and television programmes as well as books and lectures on spycraft based on their reminiscences . |
| 13 | Mr Hall hit the headlines in 1985 when he drove to work as a groundsman at Hummersknott School , Darlington , in a Silver Shadow putting the head teacher 's Escort to shame . |
| 14 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 15 | Under the 1984 Act , the PCA is empowered to : ( i ) choose , or veto the choice , of investigating officers , supervise their inquiries , and receive their final report ; ( ii ) monitor the speed and efficiency of the investigation and issue a statement to the Chief Constable saying whether it was satisfactorily carried out ; ( iii ) receive a Chief Constable 's decision on what action he intends to take as a result of an investigation and , if need be , overturn the decision ( either by preferring disciplinary charges or , if it believes an offence has been committed , referring the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions ) . |
| 16 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 17 | He pledged to stay as opposition leader if his party would have him . |
| 18 | He and his staff rarely attend their meetings which he tends to view as an extension of the interests and personalities of those to which he is , to some degree at least , in opposition . |
| 19 | ‘ Somehow , ’ said Greg , going cautiously because he hated to look as if he wanted to teach the police their business , ‘ it does n't sound like Hilda Machin . |
| 20 | But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist . |
| 21 | Tim had worked with computers at school , then in the high street shops , writing programs , trying out the games , until he began to act as unpaid demonstrator to the crowds of watching children , and the assistants did n't mind his presence . |
| 22 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 23 | At fourteen he began to work as a postman at 2d. a round , one round each morning . |
| 24 | He seems to function as a wholly peripheral supernumerary . |
| 25 | Clark is beady-eyed in his dismissal of what he seems to regard as sentimentality : |
| 26 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 27 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 28 | He managed to behave as if the politicians were fallible beings whom we hoped against hope to take seriously . |
| 29 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 30 | ‘ From whatever part of Alba he wishes to take as his lodging , ’ Thorfinn said . |