Example sentences of "there as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 2 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 3 | I mean it was always there as a defence mechanism so you |
| 4 | I used to help there as a boy . |
| 5 | Like Jos , her brother had worked there as a boy . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to play there as a boy , and people told us the tunnels went all the way to Cuchulain 's castle . |
| 7 | Er and I went there as a boy after engines and things you know , in then , do you remember them ? |
| 8 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 9 | There 's good sport over that high pasture , I remember it well from my time there as a boy . |
| 10 | And that erm probably , possibly could run it off there as a P S Two mouse but erm I 've heard |
| 11 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 12 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | If it had been me there as a kid , I 'd have wrapped my arms around him and smothered him , that 's how strong the emotion was . |
| 14 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 15 | Pat Riley , large , square and solid , the sergeant-major who ruled by tact , was actually an American citizen , having been taken there as a child . |
| 16 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it does not quite cover all sporting interests because horse racing ( or indeed camel racing ) is also in there as a sport . |
| 18 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 19 | Wilko still the bookie 's favourite , but the quote from Graham Kelly the FA Chief was that anyone appointed now is just there as a caretaker , because they want to change things around and take their time now that we have nothing to play for till 1998 . |
| 20 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |
| 21 | There is a token female on the adventure but she 's just there as a conversation point and to be rescued from the unwanted advances of unshaven cowboys ( ‘ This is not a very 90 's man thing , ’ Crystal warns them ) . |
| 22 | David says : ‘ I felt I should have been dressed there as a man . |
| 23 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |
| 24 | And I started from there as a forester . |
| 25 | He was celebrated there as a martyr , and his grave became a shrine , a sacred site , a pilgrimage centre . |
| 26 | Right and then there as a fraction of the circle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Had a few thousand peacekeeping troops been sent there as a sign of outside concern , that war just might have been avoided . |
| 29 | I told her she was telling porkies because I knew for sure that God put it there as a sign he was never going to drown us all again or otherwise wreck the planet . |
| 30 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |