Example sentences of "he [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since he doubled as surfer and media man , our paths crossed often enough . |
| 2 | PREMIER John Major sat squirming in the Commons yesterday as the man he dismissed as Chancellor put a bomb under him and lit the fuse . |
| 3 | He believed Britain could absorb a ‘ significant influx ’ although he dismissed as nonsense the suggestion that all would want to come . |
| 4 | Distancing himself from the CPSU , he promised as President not to represent a single political trend but to involve the full range of " public thought " in government . |
| 5 | At 13 he sailed as apprentice to a ship-owner operating out of Whitehaven in Cumberland , 36 miles [ 58 km ] south-west of Carlisle , and from ship 's boy rose to be third mate on a ‘ black-birder ’ or slave ship . |
| 6 | And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive . |
| 7 | In July 1987 he joined as finance director , and has worked with the top management team to restructure the company within its chosen markets — packaging , printing and industrial films . |
| 8 | He flinched as Sweetheart lifted her hands in the air and let them fall back into her lap with a sigh of exasperation . |
| 9 | He cites as evidence the fact that changes in the heavens were first noted , recorded and discussed by Western astronomers after the proposal of the Copernican theory . |
| 10 | He served as Alderman for Cripplegate Ward from 1473 to 1485 , and for Cheap from 1485 until his death . |
| 11 | He served as chairman in 1769 , 1770 , and 1772 , and was thus at the centre of public attention at a crucial stage in Anglo-Asian relations . |
| 12 | He served as lord lieutenant of the counties of Glamorgan and Bute from 1815 until his death . |
| 13 | He served as president of the Library Association ( 1922–3 ) , was elected an honorary FLA in 1929 , and , just before he retired , was knighted in 1930 . |
| 14 | He served as president of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Italian Royal College of Science ; the latter made him automatically a member of the council of the Fascist party and entitled him to be addressed as His Excellency . |
| 15 | He served as Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1855 until his death during which period the Geological Survey in Scotland was formally constituted . |
| 16 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 17 | He worked as labourer , plough boy , shepherd , gardener , lime-burner and hedge-planter . |
| 18 | For a brief spell he worked as headmaster of the Cattle Market School , St Luke 's , Holloway . |
| 19 | He worked as parish priest at St Wilfrid , in Bishop Auckland , before accepting his post at St Paulinus . |
| 20 | Then he worked as garden boy at Ballykilcavan , but in the winter of 1860–1 he left abruptly after a quarrel . |
| 21 | A long-standing Mitterrand ally , he worked as Secretary-General in the President 's office from 1981 and then as Minister for Social Affairs and National Solidarity in 1982-84 . |
| 22 | A member of the council , he functioned as escort to the king 's daughter , Queen Margaret of Scotland [ q.v. ] , during 1252–3 , and in March 1254 took responsibility for the English and Welsh lands of the young Prince Edward . |
| 23 | In 1988 he employed as researcher a Life journalist called Robbyn Swan . |
| 24 | And , since he took as starting points the avoidance of waste and of idleness , he argued : let care be taken not to leave in the instance of any individual whatever the smallest fragment of ability unemployed . " |
| 25 | Historians have quarrelled about that since Thucydides and perhaps before ( for there is some reason to think that he was writing to correct what he saw as error , notably about the Megarian decree , for which see p. 91 ) . |
| 26 | The days of John Berger 's denouncing what he saw as exploitation of the Caribbean and donating half his winnings to the Black Panthers are clearly gone . |
| 27 | Oakeshott examines the most important modes of experience , which he identifies as science , history , and practice , in order to show how their methods are partial and defective and therefore do not take us nearer the overall coherence of the world of experience which it is the objective of philosophy to pursue . |
| 28 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |
| 29 | On leaving Malaya , Skinner joined the 33rd Parachute Light Regiment , RA , at Aldershot , as a troop commander ; in 1960 he went as Adjutant to 95th Amphibious Operations Regiment , RA , in Malta . |
| 30 | His mockery , which he meant as love , frightened and cut her to the bone . |