Example sentences of "he [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 2 | ‘ of a qualified driver ’ The supervisor must be a ‘ qualified driver ’ as defined in regulation 9(6) of the Motor Vehicles ( Driving Licences ) Regulations 1987 , namely , a person who holds a full licence authorising him to drive as a full licence holder a motor vehicle of the same class or description as the vehicle being driven by the holder of the provisional licence . |
| 3 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 4 | The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot . |
| 5 | I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them . |
| 6 | She had had him pegged as an emotional lightweight , probably good at his job in a technical sense but untroubled by messy feelings . |
| 7 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 8 | But the personnel manageress said later : ‘ We may ask him to appear as the real thing next time . ’ |
| 9 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |
| 10 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |
| 11 | John became a justice of the Common Bench in Easter term 1275 and the formal records of the court show him acting as a justice continuously down to the end of 1289 . |
| 12 | A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) . |
| 13 | When a stick was cut for him to use as a crutch he hobbled about the yard , complaining that nothing was being done properly in his absence . |
| 14 | as if that were not enough , the Department of Trade and Industry is still trying to have him disqualified as a company director for his role in the collapse of Homes Assured — a move which forced his resignation from the chairmanship of Lonrho in 1991 . |
| 15 | The pull of journalism was incessant , but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor . |
| 16 | for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court . |
| 17 | Not all the other dancers were in sympathy with the intellectual attitudes of John and his friends , either , but he needed all the intellectual stimulation he could get because , although his work as a dancer was meant to help him develop as a choreographer , the repertory was far from ideal for that purpose . |
| 18 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 19 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 20 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 21 | In this context , Edward s assumption of the title and arms of Ring of France at Ghent in 1340 is of the utmost significance , for it allowed him to pose as an alternative government in France and attract the loyalty of those who for whatever reason were discontented with Valois rule . |
| 22 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 23 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |
| 24 | The occasion was made even more splendid by the presence of King Alfonso II of Aragon and Count Raymond V of Toulouse , who had asked him to act as an arbitrator in their long-standing quarrel . |
| 25 | Two months after Unkiar-Skelessi , at Münchengrätz in Bohemia , he explained his Turkish policy to the Emperor of Austria and persuaded him to act as an additional guarantor of the integrity of the Ottoman lands . |
| 26 | If so , it was good to give him experience as a bishop as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Eventually we find him established as a hermit at Finchale , having abandoned the pursuit of earthly treasure . |
| 28 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |
| 29 | In 1895 Morrison was in London , thinking again about a career in journalism , when C. F. Moberly Bell [ q.v. ] , manager of The Times , offered him work as a secret correspondent to Siam ( Thailand ) . |
| 30 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |