Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 2 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 3 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 4 | I remember watching Ian 's first match for Border as a Queen 's College schoolboy . |
| 5 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 6 | The earwig is not immediately recognisable as a gardener 's friend , and has been known to damage fruit . |
| 7 | As a gardener 's daughter she would have been accustomed to muddy boots and black finger-nails . |
| 8 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 9 | Her stomach and oviduct do not have muscles which can contract and so expel her young as a mammal 's womb has . |
| 10 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 11 | Roles began his career by serving his apprenticeship as a photographer 's assistant after leaving school , but then transferred to an education in sculpture and painting . |
| 12 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 13 | The library doubles as a gentleman 's room , or , failing that ( for Kerr remarks elsewhere that ‘ the ladies are not exactly excluded ’ from it ) , they are sure to have the billiard-room to themselves , while the young of the sex may ‘ do as they like ’ in the odd room . |
| 14 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 15 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 16 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 17 | She has a small part in a new Christopher Columbus movie , due out in February , and a lead role as a brewer 's daughter with ambitions in Monty Python man Eric Idle 's new film comedy Splitting Heirs . |
| 18 | Because my elder sister she left home when she was about sixteen I think , she went erm into she was working there as a matron 's maid . |
| 19 | was built afterwards as a servant 's house . |
| 20 | Vignettes drawn ad vivum depict the lives of the inhabitants of the distant regions , such as a raja 's procession in Sumatra , and a Tupinambá village in Brazil . |
| 21 | But while I tramcar leaving any suburban area there was always what was known then as a worker 's return . |
| 22 | So in a very broad sense agriculture is going to have to con contribute to China 's , China as a whole 's economic development |
| 23 | ‘ Trussed up tight as a smack-smuggler 's arse ! ’ he muttered . |
| 24 | As a speaker 's speech undergoes a process of accommodation to the norms of the new dialect , a new grammar is acquired through the addition to the speaker 's internal grammar of rules which " convert " the existing dialect forms into the new ones . |
| 25 | There was one woman who repeatedly used the unit as a GP 's surgery . |
| 26 | His cheeks were round and innocent as a choir-boy 's . |
| 27 | The managing director of one of the biggest of such organisations attached to this place is registered as a Member 's secretary or research assistant . |
| 28 | This will come into effect on 7 October 1991 ; that the value of the right to receive a personal pension will be disregarded as a person 's capital from 7 October 1991 ; |
| 29 | Things which are not open to change , such as a person 's age , are treated as causes ; indeed , some researchers like to reserve the term ‘ cause ’ for such factors . |
| 30 | ‘ Dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) but does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure ( Section 8 ) . |