Example sentences of "he [verb] as a " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |
| 7 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The pull of journalism was incessant , but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |
| 15 | If so , it was good to give him experience as a bishop as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Eventually we find him established as a hermit at Finchale , having abandoned the pursuit of earthly treasure . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He postures as a political activist , and the solidarity forced on the quintet by Shatov 's murder might be expected to make them a more effective instrument . |
| 20 | The box where he lived as a stallion is still preserved on the estate . |
| 21 | He lived as a village carpenter 's son . |
| 22 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |
| 23 | From his saddlebag he took a length of rope that he knotted as a leash round Nosey 's neck , then he drew his rifle out of the saddle holster , cocked it , and went silently forward . |
| 24 | Later , he registered as a PhD student at King 's College , London , studying philosophy and psychology under Professor Aveling . |
| 25 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 26 | Francisco worked in Admin , but occasionally he doubled as a barman , and he did n't have to explain that he had cut himself on a broken glass . |
| 27 | He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State . |
| 28 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 29 | Minton used this setting for his drawing , Jam Session , which he produced as a cover design for the July-August 1949 issue of Our Time , a left-wing arts magazine . |
| 30 | Ten years later he quit as a parish priest to concentrate on his pro-life activities . |