Example sentences of "were [v-ing] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 2 | Paige looked up , seeing how the lines of his face were softening as sleep overcame him . |
| 3 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 4 | Some of the German soldiers who were acting as escort for the Poles , began to unsling their rifles apprehensively . |
| 5 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 6 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 7 | if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 8 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 9 | The salaried groups were expanding as employment grew in professional and administrative services ; for every two civil servants in 1929 there were three in 1938 . |
| 10 | The two Bf 109s responsible , were disposed of very quickly by up to 50 American fighters that were flying as fighter escort . |
| 11 | Wind turbine prices were falling as production increased and the problems of public acceptability of wind farms were exaggerated . |
| 12 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 13 | Paul Reaney was with girlfriend Alison Scott when the gunman struck in Washington DC where the 22-year-olds were working as research assistants . |